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Transverse material inhomogeneities yielding the guiding properties of any optical fibre also cause a variation of stimulated Brillouin resonance frequency, and thus a spectral broadening as well as a reduction of the overall SBS gain. A simple model defines an effective steady SBS gain, and may explain the dispersion of available measured values.
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Botineau et al. (1995) studied this question.
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