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Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Continuous Wave Phase Conjugation In Step-Index Fiber Optics, Steven M. Massey, Justin B. Spring, Timothy H. Russell Jul 2008

Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Continuous Wave Phase Conjugation In Step-Index Fiber Optics, Steven M. Massey, Justin B. Spring, Timothy H. Russell

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Continuous wave (CW) stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) phase conjugation in step-index optical fibers was studied experimentally and modeled as a function of fiber length. A phase conjugate fidelity over 80% was measured from SBS in a 40 m fiber using a pinhole technique. Fidelity decreases with fiber length, and a fiber with a numerical aperture (NA) of 0.06 was found to generate good phase conjugation fidelity over longer lengths than a fiber with 0.13 NA. Modeling and experiment support previous work showing the maximum interaction length which yields a high fidelity phase conjugate beam is inversely proportional to the fiber …


Enhanced Dielectric Properties In Single Crystal-Like Bifeo3 Thin Films Grown By Flux-Mediated Epitaxy, S.-H. Lim, M. Murakami, J. H. Yang, S.-Y. Young, Jason R. Hattrick-Simpers, M. Wuttig, L. G. Salamanca-Riba, I. Takeuchi Jan 2008

Enhanced Dielectric Properties In Single Crystal-Like Bifeo3 Thin Films Grown By Flux-Mediated Epitaxy, S.-H. Lim, M. Murakami, J. H. Yang, S.-Y. Young, Jason R. Hattrick-Simpers, M. Wuttig, L. G. Salamanca-Riba, I. Takeuchi

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We have fabricated single crystal-like BiFeO3 (BFO) thin films by flux-mediated epitaxy using pulsed laser deposition(PLD). The Bi–Cu–O flux composition and its thickness were optimized using composition spread, thickness gradient, and temperature gradient libraries. The optimized BFO thin films grown with this technique showed larger grain size of ∼2μm and higher dielectric constant in the range of 260–340 than those for standard PLD grown films. In addition, the leakage current density of the films was reduced by two orders of magnitude compared to that of standard PLD grown films.