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We numerically demonstrate that Lithium Niobate on Insulator (LNOI) waveguides may support confined short-wavelength surface acoustic waves that interact strongly with optical fields through backward stimulated Brillouin scattering in both…

Strongly coupling two systems allows them to exchange coherent information before the systems decohere. This important regime in light-matter interactions has predominantly been reached in optical resonator configurations. In this work, we…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-21 Laura Blázquez Martínez , Changlong Zhu , Birgit Stiller

We grow accustomed to the notion that optical susceptibilities can be treated as a local property of a medium. In the context of nonlinear optics, both Kerr and Raman processes are considered local, meaning that optical fields at one…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Shai Gertler , Prashanta Kharel , Eric A. Kittlaus , Nils T. Otterstrom , Peter T. Rakich

The acousto-optic interaction known as stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) has emerged as fundamental principles for realizing crucial components and functionalities in integrated photonics. However, the main challenge of integrated…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-08 Peng Lei , Mingyu Xu , Yunhui Bai , Zhangyuan Chen , Xiaopeng Xie

Strong acousto-optic interaction in silicon-based waveguides generally requires releasing of the silicon core to avoid mechanical leakage into the underlying silica substrate. This complicates fabrication, limits thermalization, reduces the…

Silicon is an ideal material for on-chip applications, however its poor acoustic properties limit its performance for important optoacoustic applications, particularly for Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS). We theoretically show that…

We introduce the concept of Brillouin optomechanics, a phonon-photon interaction process mediated by the electrostrictive force exerted by light on dielectrics and the photoelastic scattering of light from an acoustic wave. We first provide…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-12 Gaurav Bahl , Tal Carmon

Integrated silicon microwave photonics offers great potential in microwave phase shifter elements, and promises compact and scalable multi-element chips that are free from electromagnetic interference. Stimulated Brillouin scattering, which…

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.…

Traveling-wave optomechanical interactions, known as Brillouin interactions, have now been established as a powerful and versatile resource for photonic sources, sensors, and radio-frequency processors. However, established Brillouin-based…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-07 Wendao Xu , Arjun Iyer , Lei Jin , Sze Y. Set , William H. Renninger

We numerically study silicon waveguides on silica showing that it is possible to simultaneously guide optical and acoustic waves in the technologically important silicon on insulator (SOI) material system. Thin waveguides, or fins, exhibit…

Here we identify a new form of optomechanical coupling in gas-filled hollow-core fibers. Stimulated forward Brillouin scattering is observed in air in the core of a photonic bandgap fiber. A single resonance is observed at 35 MHz, which…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-19 William H. Renninger , Ryan O. Behunin , Peter T. Rakich

Silicon nitride (Si3N4) has emerged as a promising material for integrated nonlinear photonics and has been used for broadband soliton microcombs and low-pulse-energy supercontinuum generation. Therefore understanding all nonlinear optical…

We present a novel approach to cascaded stimulated Brillouin scattering and frequency comb generation in which the multitude of interacting pump, Stokes, and anti-Stokes optical fields are described by a single forward wave and a single…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-04 Mark Dong , Herbert Graves Winful

Achieving cavity-optomechanical strong coupling with high-frequency phonons provides a rich avenue for quantum technology development including quantum state-transfer, memory, and transduction, as well as enabling several fundamental…

Recent advances in design and fabrication of photonic-phononic waveguides have enabled stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in silicon-based platforms, such as under-etched silicon waveguides and hybrid waveguides. Due to the sophisticated…

Realization of chip-scale nonreciprocal optics such as isolators and circulators is highly demanding for all-optical signal routing and protection with standard photonics foundry process. Owing to the significant challenge for incorporating…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-23 Jiyang Ma , Jianming Wen , Yong Hu , Shulin Ding , Xiaoshun Jiang , Liang Jiang , Min Xiao

We investigate the phenomena of Brillouin induced opacity in nanoscale linear waveguides and Brillouin induced transparency in nanoscale ring waveguides. The concept of phonon-polariton is required in order to get a deep understanding of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Hashem Zoubi

Thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) has emerged as a leading material platform for integrated nonlinear photonics, enabling transformative applications such as broadband Kerr soliton microcomb and high-speed electro-optic modulation. While…

Seamlessly integrating stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in a low-loss and mature photonic integration platform remains a complicated task. Virtually all current approaches fall short in simultaneously achieving strong SBS, low losses,…