Modal theory and output patterns of Stokes radiation in SRS: generation at pump with Bessel light beams

A new theoretical model of SRS for a Bessel pump beam is presented. The experimentally observed regularities of SRS, concerning the formation of output patterns an nearly diffraction-limited axial Stokes beam are explained within the framework of this model. The model represents the Stokes radiation as a superposition of partial Bessel modes if a cylindrical waveguide is formed by a pump beam.