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Pulse compression to one-tenth of phonon lifetime using quasi-steady-state stimulated Brillouin scattering

  • Zhaohong Liu
  • , Yulei Wang*
  • , Zhenxu Bai
  • , Yirui Wang
  • , Duo Jin
  • , Hongli Wang
  • , Hang Yuan
  • , Dianyang Lin
  • , Zhiwei Lu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Macquarie University
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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Abstract

A new stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) compression mechanism, quasi-steady-state SBS compression, in which the compression limit is one-tenth of the phonon lifetime with a high energy efficiency, is proposed and practically realized in this study. The feasibility of this approach is demonstrated experimentally, in which a compression of 0.36τB with an energy efficiency of 65% is achieved in a 3M Fluorinert Electronic Liquid FC-3283 and a compression output of 0.12τB (near-compression-limited) with an energy efficiency above 40% is obtained in acetone when the phonon lifetime to leading-edge to ratio is greater than 10. This ratio is identified experimentally as the key parameter in quasi-steady-state SBS compression. This work provides a practical approach to reliably generating one-tenth-phonon-lifetime pulses by quasi-steady-state SBS compression.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)23051-23060
Number of pages10
JournalOptics Express
Volume26
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Sep 2018

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  1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

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