Optical limiting effect based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in CCl4

• 来源期刊: 中国物理（英文版）
• 关键词: stimulated Brillouin scattering optical limiting
• 年，卷（期）: 2003,（5）
• 页码范围: 507-513
• 页数: 7页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

The optical limiting effect based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in a nonlinear medium was investigated.We numerically treated the nonlinear propagation process with a theoretical model, which includes the spontaneous nature of the initiation of SBS, and obtained optical limiting effect in the process. Energy limiting, pulse reshaping and stabilization have been demonstrated on SBS mechanism with the nonlinear medium CCl4. The input optical signals were Nd:YAG nanosecond laser pulses with width wrying from 16ns to 7ns then to 2ns, the relationship between the transmitted signal and launched pump signal was shown. In the experimental regime, the most stable pulse and a superior energy stabilization of the transmitted pulse were obtained when the laser pulse-width became as short as 2ns.For the energy variation of laser pulses in a wide range of 14-88mJ, the output energy was limited in a quite narrow range 4.5-5.5mJ.