The impact of pulse shape is studied in order to enhance time delaying in Brillouin slow-light. An exponential-like pulse with 14-ns FWHM duration is delayed up to 31-ns in a 27 MHz wide Brillouin resonance. ©2008 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (290.5900) Scattering, stimulated Brillouin; (350.5500) Propagation

Two-dimensional stimulated Brillouin scattering microscopy is demonstrated for the first time using low power continuous-wave lasers tunable around 780 nm. Spontaneous Brillouin spectroscopy has much potential for probing viscoelastic properties remotely and non-invasively on a microscopic scale. Nonlinear Brillouin scattering spectroscopy and microscopy may provide a way to tremendously accele...

The Brillouin shift and width for poly(acrylic acid) hydrogels have been obtained as a function of gel network volume fraction using a five-pass Fabry-Pdrot interferometer. A conspicuous peak has been observed in the Brillouin shift at high volume fraction. The results are discussed in the light of a theory for the Brillouin light-scattering from gels proposed by Marqusee and Deutch-

We present the results of our numerical exploration of the fractal structure found by S.P. Novikov in the problem of the behaviour of magnetoresistance in a normal metal under a strong magnetic field. The case we discuss in this paper is the simplest non-trivial one, namely the case of 2 Fermi Surfaces that cut the brillouin zone along of the coordinate axes (i.e. Fermi surfaces have genus 3).

Subject to the assumption that sub-barrier fusion is described by an effective one-dimensional energy-independent local potential barrier, the Jeffreys-Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation for the fusion cross sections is inverted to determine this effective potential. Potential barriers, with their associated experimental errors, are presented for 13C+ 13C and 40Ca+ 40Ca, and the assumption...

Brillouin scattering allows the determination of acoustic velocities and adiabatic elastic moduli in matter. These data are crucial in many areas of science, such as fundamental physics, geosciences and technology, especially when measured as a function of the density (pressure). In this paper, we present a review of the work performed on Brillouin scattering under high pressure in diamond anvi...