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We consider Brillouin scattering on short-lived phonon modes, such that the relative Brillouin shift between propagating and scattered waves is smaller than the relative width of phonon modes. In this case one phonon mode facilitates…

Brillouin scattering has applications ranging from signal processing, sensing and microscopy, to quantum information and fundamental science. Most of these applications rely on the electrostrictive interaction between light and phonons.…

The fast-growing development of optomechanical applications has motivated advancements in Brillouin scattering research. In particular, the study of high frequency acoustic phonons at the nanoscale is interesting due to large range of…

We predict and experimentally observe a nonlinear variant of stimulated Brillouin scattering in a single-mode fiber that arises from consideration of higher-order processes for phonon generation. The effect manifests itself at high laser…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-03 K. Kieu , D. Churin , E. M. Wright , R. A. Norwood , N. Peyghambarian

Cooling of a 58 MHz micro-mechanical resonator from room temperature to 11 K is demonstrated using cavity enhanced radiation pressure. Detuned pumping of an optical resonance allows enhancement of the blue shifted motional sideband (caused…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-30 A. Schliesser , P. Del'Haye , N. Nooshi , K. J. Vahala , T. J. Kippenberg

Brillouin microscopy is an emerging label-free imaging technique to assess local viscoelastic properties. Quantum-enhanced stimulated Brillouin scattering is demonstrated for the first time using low power continuous-wave lasers at 795~nm.…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-16 Tian Li , Fu Li , Xinghua Liu , Vladislav V. Yakovlev , Girish S. Agarwal

We propose a method for generating cascaded forward Brillouin scattering (CFBS), based on a counter-propagated pump-probe technique, utilizing backward stimulated Brillouin scattering as its seed. The CFBS, induced by forward stimulated…

We report the first direct observation of Brillouin-like propagation modes in a dissipative periodic optical lattice. This has been done by observing, in both theoretical and experimental work, a resonant behaviour of the spatial diffusion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Sanchez-Palencia , F. -R. Carminati , M. Schiavoni , F. Renzoni , G. Grynberg

The process of stimulated Brillouin scattering is described by the model of two-dimensional oscillator. The phenomenon of entanglement which appears in the photon-phonon modes after the interaction with matter is discussed.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 S. V. Kuznetsov , A. V. Kyusev , O. V. Man'ko , N. V. Tcherniega

We demonstrate a 5-GHz-broadband tunable slow-light device based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in a standard highly-nonlinear optical fiber pumped by a noise-current-modulated laser beam. The noise modulation waveform uses an optimized…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yunhui Zhu , Myungjun Lee , Mark. A. Neifeld , Daniel J. Gauthier

An enhancement in Brillouin light scattering of optical photons with magnons is demonstrated in magneto-optical whispering gallery mode resonators tuned to a triple resonance point. This occurs when both the input and output optical modes…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-23 J. A. Haigh , A. Nunnenkamp , A. J. Ramsay , A. J. Ferguson

Entanglement in hybrid quantum systems comprised of fundamentally different degrees of freedom, such as light and mechanics is of interest for a wide range of applications in quantum technologies. Here, we propose to engineer bipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Changlong Zhu , Claudiu Genes , Birgit Stiller

Brillouin oscillation appears in picosecond ultrasonics for a transparent specimen because of backward light scattering by moving strain pulse. Its amplitude is comparable with those of other responses, such as pulse-echo signals and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-03-11 Hsu Kai Weng , Akira Nagakubo , Hideyuki Watanabe , Hirotsugu Ogi

The spectral evolution and spatial distribution of backscattered Brillouin signals is experimentally investigated in sub-wavelength silica microfibers. The Brillouin spectrum evolution reveals the different dynamics of the various peaks,…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-10 Wei Luo , Hong-qian Cao , Yong-kang Dong , Yan-qing Lu , Fei Xu , Gilberto Brambilla

Owing to their highly coherent emission and compact form factor, Brillouin lasers have been identified as a valuable asset for applications including portable atomic clocks, precision sensors, coherent microwave synthesis and…

We propose a scheme in which the cooling of a mechanical resonator is achieved by exposing the optomechanical system to a non-Markovian environment. Because of the backflow from the non-Markovian environment, the phonon number can go beyond…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Wen-Zhao Zhang , Jiong Cheng , Wen-Dong Li , Ling Zhou

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) offers among the highest nonlinear gains in solid materials and has demonstrated advanced photonics functionalities in waveguides. The large compressibility of gases suggests that SBS may gain in…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-22 Fan Yang , Flavien Gyger , Luc Thévenaz

We report Ultraviolet Brillouin light scattering experimental data on v-SiO2 in an unexplored frequency region, performed with a newly available spectrometer up to exchanged wavevector q values of 0.075 nm^{-1}, as a function of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Benassi , S. Caponi , R. Eramo , A. Fontana , A. Giugni , M. Nardone , M. Sampoli , G. Viliani

Brillouin processes couple light and sound through optomechanical three-wave interactions. Within bulk solids, this coupling is mediated by the intrinsic photo-elastic material response yielding coherent emission of high frequency (GHz)…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-04 W. H. Renninger , P. Kharel , R. O. Behunin , P. T. Rakich

Stimulated Brillouin scattering with both pump and Stokes beams in resonance with whispering gallery modes of an ultra high Q CaF_2 resonator is demonstrated for the first time. The resonator is pumped with 1064 nm light and has a Brillouin…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ivan S. Grudinin , Andrey B. Matsko , Lute Maleki