Brief Communications

Influence of the Faraday effect on stimulated backward scattering of light

B. Ya. Zel'dovich, N. V. Morachevskiĭ


Abstract: It is shown that opposite rotation of the directions of polarization of the pump and scattered waves in an external magnetic field may reduce the intensity gain g (cm^–1). The greatest change (by a factor of two compared with the initial value of the gain g₀) should be observed when the magnetic rotation Ф (rad/cm) exceeds g₀/8 in the case of a linearly polarized pump wave.

UDC: 535.375.5+535.56

PACS: 42.10.Nh

Received: 19.02.1976

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1976, 6:9, 1131–1132