Exploiting Brillouin Scattering in Analog Signal Processing

Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) in optical fibers can be exploited to obtain frequency conversion with amplification and frequency-selective amplification in photonic signal-transmission and signal-processing systems. SBS has been found to be particularly useful in photonic systems that handle optical carrier signals modulated with relatively narrow-band radio-frequency (RF) signals that are typically of analog origin.