Stimulated Raman scattering of linearly chirped pulses
Abstract
We present the effect of introducing a time-varying phase, particularly, a linear chirp to the input pulse of Stimulated Raman Scattering in hydrogen. A chirped pulse lowers the conversion efficiency of Raman components. However, a linear chirp compresses the pulse; that is the pulse width decreases as the chirp factor is increased. It is further observed that there is an optimum value of the chirp factor such that a maximum peak power is obtained.