Optical amplification in hollow core fibers has been achieved using stimulated Brillouin scattering directly in the gaseous medium. More than 50 dB optical gain is observed over 50 m of fiber using 200 mW of pump power.
Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Xinru Ji, Zheru Qiu, Junqiu Liu, Yang Liu, Jijun He, Anton Lukashchuk
Kamil Sedlák, Davide Uglietti, Christoph Müller