Abstract

Since the first reported observation of phase conjugation in stimulated Brillouin scattering this nonlinear optical process has been the subject of extensive experimental and theoretical investigation.¹ Despite this intensive effort, numerical modeling of the process for practical systems has proved to be difficult due to very large computer storage and computational requirements.² We describe a novel approach to the problem which permits us to model accurately the conjugation process on a microcomputer in full 3-D simulations and in the high resolution conditions required for large Fresnel number geometries and significantly aberrated beams.

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