Abstract

Much analysis and modeling of stimulated Brillouin and Raman scattering are done using a steady-state approximation. Because these processes are driven by rapidly fluctuating (thermal or quantum) noise and the noiseless equations have no time-independent solution with nonvanishing Stokes wave amplitude, there is no steady state. Although many investigators^1-3 have clearly understood some aspects of this, the existence of large intensity fluctuations is not widely appreciated.

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