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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 propose a feasible waveguide design optimized for harnessing Stimulated Brillouin Scattering with long-lived phonons. The design consists of a fully suspended ridge waveguide surrounded by a 1D phononic crystal that mitigates losses to…

Achieving nonreciprocal light propagation in photonic circuits is essential to control signal crosstalk and optical back-scatter. However, realizing high-fidelity nonreciprocity in low-loss integrated photonic systems remains challenging.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-04 Eric A. Kittlaus , Nils T. Otterstrom , Prashanta Kharel , Shai Gertler , Peter T. Rakich

Brillouin Light Scattering is a powerful technique to measure the microwave excitations present in a magnetic system. In microfocused mode, the light is focused on the sample using a microscope objective. This accelerates substantially the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Nessrine Benaziz , Thibaut Devolder , Jean-Paul Adam

We study the role of stimulated Brillouin scattering in a fiber cavity by numerical simulations and a simple theoretical model and find good agreement between experiment, simulation and theory. We also investigate an optomechanical system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Abel Beregi , Peter F. Barker , Antonio Pontin

Stimulated Brillouin scattering in integrated photonic waveguides enables coherent coupling between optical photons and gigahertz acoustic phonons, providing a powerful mechanism for on-chip microwave photonics and opto-acoustic signal…

We discuss the possible cooling of different phonon modes via three wave mixing interactions of vibrational and optical modes. Since phonon modes exhibit a variety of dispersion relations or frequency spectra with diverse spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 G. S. Agarwal , Sudhanshu S. Jha

We propose a method to control the energy distribution in multimode mechanical systems using a single nonlinear feedback loop. We demonstrate that this feedback mechanism simultaneously amplifies the fundamental vibrational mode while…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Xu Zheng , Baowen Li

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…

Brillouin-enhanced four-wave mixing - also known as Brillouin dynamic gratings - is an important nonlinear effect in photonics that couples four light waves by travelling acoustic waves. The effect has received a lot of attention in the…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-03 Xinglin Zeng , Birgit Stiller

We investigate the generation of phonon wavepackets in optical fibers via electrostriction from coherent optical waves. Solving the elastodynamic equation subject to the electrostrictive force, we are able to reproduce experimental spectra…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-23 Jean-Charles Beugnot , Vincent Laude

We report the first observation of cascaded forward stimulated Brillouin scattering in a microresonator platform. We have demonstrated 25 orders of intramodal Stokes beams separated by a Brillouin shift of 34.5 MHz at a sub-milliwatt…

We measure the Brillouin gain spectra in two cores (the central core and one of the outer cores) of a ~3-m-long, silica-based, 7-core multi-core fiber (MCF) with incident light of 1550 nm wavelength, and investigate the Brillouin frequency…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-30 Yosuke Mizuno , Neisei Hayashi , Kentaro Nakamura

A signature of the scattering between microcavity polaritons and longitudinal optical phonons has been observed in the electroluminescence spectrum of an intersubband device operating in the light-matter strong coupling regime. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 A. Delteil , A. Vasanelli , P. Jouy , D. Barate , J. C. Moreno , R. Teissier , A. N. Baranov , C. Sirtori

Micro-focus Brillouin light scattering is a powerful technique for the spectroscopic and spatial characterization of elementary excitations in materials. However, the small momentum of light limits the accessible excitations to the center…

So far, Brillouin scattering and cavity optomechanics were mostly disconnected branches of research -- although both deal with photon-phonon coupling. This begs for the development of a broader theory that contains both fields. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-25 Raphaël Van Laer , Roel Baets , Dries Van Thourhout

We show experimentally that in a supercooled liquid composed of molecules with internal degrees of freedom the internal modes contribute to the frequency dependent shear viscosity and damping of transverse phonons, which results in an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Patkowski , J. Gapinski , G. Meier , H. Kriegs , A. Le Grand , C. Dreyfus

Optical spectrometers are indispensable tools across various fields, from chemical and biological sensing to astronomical observations and quantum technologies. However, the integration of spectrometers onto photonic chips has been hindered…

We report on the experimental observation of bunching dynamics with temporal cavity solitons in a continuously-driven passive fibre resonator. Specifically, we excite a large number of ultrafast cavity solitons with random temporal…

Resonance Raman scattering, a very effective and sensitive technique for atomically thin semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide, can be used to observe the phonons from the entire Brillouin zone. In addition to the significance of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-06 Deepu Kumar , Nasaru Khan , Rahul Kumar , Mahesh Kumar , Pradeep Kumar