Which outcome occurs when a pulsed laser's peak power exceeds the damage threshold of optical fiber?

💡 Explanation

Stimulated Brillouin scattering will initiates because exceeding the power threshold causes phonon generation; this creates an acoustic wave that scatters the light backward, therefore reducing transmission rather than improving it; different mechanism than Raman scattering.

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