Document Type
Article
Department
Physics (HMC)
Publication Date
10-1994
Abstract
Guided acoustic‐wave Brillouin scattering (GAWBS) measurements were performed on 20‐cm lengths of optical fibers with particular attention focused on the lowest lying resonance. In 125‐μm‐diam silica fibers, this resonance was observed to occur at ~22 MHz and have a line shape which varied erratically from sample to sample. Significant line shape fluctuations were evident even between sequential samples from the same fiber spool. We speculate that the observed effects are attributable to 0.01-0.1 μm distributed geometric deviations from a perfect cylinder.
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DOI
10.1063/1.112714
Recommended Citation
“Low-frequency lineshapes in guided acoustic-wave Brillouin scattering,” B. I. Greene and P. N. Saeta, Appl. Phys. Lett. 65, 2269 (1994).
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