Abstract

The following equations govern stimulated Raman scattering in the transient limit: There are two easily characterized evolution regimes.¹ The first regime occurs at small z where the pump beam can be considered undepleted. In this regime the Stokes beam grows exponentially, and an integral solution has been found by Carmen et al.,² where l Bessel functions appear. The second regime, the J regime, occurs at large z where the Stokes beam has nearly saturated. In this regime, the pump beam intensity decreases as z^1/2 and an integral solution involving J Bessel functions has been found.

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