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Brillouin mirror with an inverted acoustic profile in the presence of strong acoustic dispersion

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While usually negligible in standard optical fibers, the group velocity dispersion of acoustic waves may in some cases play a significant role in the dynamics of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in propagation media with more complex structures, such as microstructured fibers. The usual three-wave coherent model of SBS can be adapted to take perturbative acoustic dispersion into account, but the slowly varying envelope approximation does not hold for stronger values of the acoustic dispersion, which call for a more sophisticated inertial model of SBS. A new regime of SBS mirrors with a spatially inverted acoustic profile is predicted in this limit. In the presence of strong acoustic dispersion, this regime exhibits a higher conversion efficiency than the usual mirror in the dispersionless case, as well as nonlinear self-stabilization of the phase of the acoustic wave when the pump is strongly depleted. Formal calculations allow the identification of regions of strong dynamic dispersion.

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