Abstract

In this Letter, we propose a novel method based on the inhomogeneous Brillouin gain saturation to reduce the gain bandwidth significantly below its natural value. Based on our first experiments, we report a decrease of the bandwidth in a standard single mode fiber down to 3 MHz.

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