Comprehensive Theoretical Study on Threshold Power of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Single-Mode Fibers

We have investigated and developed a theoretical approach to explore stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) phenomena in single mode fiber. SBS happening threshold power condition has been studied in terms of fiber parameters and input pump power. To assess threshold power precisely, the pump depletion effect and fiber loss has been included by employing 1% criterion. The threshold exponential gain Gth can be anticipated by this simulation which strongly depends on the fiber length Brillouin gain content and effective area. The value of Gth is not a constant as usually assumed in the literature and its value is 4 for the longer lengths and between 10 and 18 is for relatively shorter lengths. This simulation can anticipate the optimum length of fiber against the every launched pump power to generate SBS effect.