Patent 7088886 was granted and assigned to Hrl Laboratories, Llc on August, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A limiter for limiting selected frequency components by generating Stokes waves in a stimulated Brillouin scattering medium. The generated Stokes waves create a seed that is provided to another stimulated Brillouin scattering medium. The seed selecting the undesired frequency components to be attenuated.