Abstract

The theory of stimulated Raman scattering has been treated at various levels of sophistication from plane-wave steady-state models through 3-D transient quantum-electrodynamic calculations.¹ Many physical effects, such as pump depletion, dispersion, level degeneracy, ac Stark shift, and parametric coupling of Stokes and anti-Stokes light, can be important in experimental setups. We describe a recently developed computer code which treats these effects in detail. The code is based on integration of the coupled Maxwell-Bloch equations of quantum optics. We discuss numerical predictions of the code relating to these effects and present applications to experimental investigations such as Raman beam cleanup and transient amplification.²

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