Stimulated Brillouin Scattering - Damzen, M J a Vlad, V a Mocofanescu, Anca a Babin, V

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is the important example of a stimulated scattering process - light scattering that occurs when the intensity of the light field itself affects the propagating medium. This work describes the underlying physics of SBS, much of which applies to other fields of research including, to some extent, plasma physics.