Patent ID: 6891660

Claim:
A stimulated Brillouin scattering optical amplifier, comprising: a) a first control optics assembly for receiving an incoming laser beam and adjusting that incoming laser beam in accordance with first desired wavelength, polarization and beam propagation parameters; b) a driver element for producing a driver laser beam; c) a second control optics assembly for receiving said driver laser beam and adjusting that driver laser beam in accordance with second desired wavelength, polarization and beam propagation parameters; d) a Brillouin active medium for receiving an output from the first control optics assembly and an output from the second control optics assembly, said Brillouin active medium providing a non-linear optical interaction between said outputs such that the incoming laser beam is amplified producing an amplified Brillouin active medium output laser beam and a depleted driver laser beam; and, e) egressing optics for receiving said amplified Brillouin active medium output laser beam and said depleted driver laser beam, said egressing optics for controllably transmitting said amplified Brillouin active medium output laser beam in accordance with third desired wavelength, polarization, and beam propagation parameters and preventing transmission of said depleted driver laser beam, the output of said egressing optics comprising an amplified egressing optics output laser beam.