On the Nature of Optically Controlled Delay
of a Stokes Pulse Amplified by Stimulated Brillouin
Scattering in Optical Fiber¹

N. E. Kotova^{a, b,} *, V. I. Kovalev^{a, b}, and R. G. Harrison^a

^a Department of Physics, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton. Edinburgh EH144AS, UK

^b Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy pr. 53, Moscow, 119991 Russia

*e-mail: nyk2@hw.ac.uk

Received November 30, 2011; in final form, December 26, 2011; published online October 1, 2012

Abstract—In this work we show through an analytic solution of the set of two coupled dynamic equations for
the slowly varying amplitudes of the Stokes optical field and material density in stimulated Brillouin scattering
(SBS), its analysis and a set of experiments, that the SBS-induced delay of an output Stokes pulse which is
amplified by the SBS interaction is due exclusively to the inertia of the acoustic wave excitation.

DOI: 10.1134/S1054660X12110072

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