Influence of cell length and input intensity changes on the Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in the single-cell setup

Abstract

This paper investigated the temporal behavior of the backward Stokes pulse from a stimulated Brillouin scattering phase conjugate mirror (SBS_PCM) in a pure acetone medium. Changes in the reflected energy of the phase-conjugate mirror and the temporal width of the Stokes pulse due to changes in the input energy flux to the cell and changes in the interaction length were studied for the single-cell structure. For this purpose, to achieve the optimal optical arrangement for maximum efficiency and minimum pulse width in full width half maximum, the cell length and the geometric structure of the phase conjugate mirror have been changed. Variations of the energy and the reflected Stokes pulse width of the phase conjugate mirror were compared for the considered cases. The results show that the reflected energy of the phase conjugate mirror can be optimized by changing the interaction geometry. By increasing the intensity of the input beam at constant energy and changing the interaction length, the minimum reflected pulse width was achieved in terms of input energy.

Keywords

• stimulated brillouin scattering
• stokes pulse
• phase-conjugate mirror