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Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is a very fundamental interaction between light and travelling acoustic waves, which is mainly attributed to the electrostriction and photoelastic effects with the interaction strength being orders of…
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)…
Signal processing based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is limited by the narrow linewidth of the optoacoustic response, which confines many Brillouin applications to continuous wave signals or optical pulses longer than several…
Stimulated Brillouin interactions mediate nonlinear coupling between photons and acoustic phonons through an optomechanical three-wave interaction. Though these nonlinearities were previously very weak in silicon photonic systems, the…
Cavity optomechanical systems enable coherent photon-phonon interactions essential for quantum technologies, yet high-performance devices have been limited to suspended structures. Here, we overcome this limitation by demonstrating cavity…
The ability to coherently store and manipulate optical information across multiple degrees of freedom is a central requirement for scalable quantum information processing and multidimensional quantum computing. While polarization- and…
Frequency- and time-domain Brillouin scattering spectroscopy are powerful tools to read out the mechanical properties of complex systems in material and life sciences. Indeed, coherent acoustic phonons in the time-domain method offer…
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…
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…
Brillouin scattering enables efficient and coherent conversion between optical photons and gigahertz-frequency phonons. Integrated circuits that harness this nonlinear interaction have immense potential for signal processing, quantum…
Storing and delaying optical signals plays a crucial role in data centers, phased array antennas, communication and future computing architectures. Here, we show a delay scheme based on cascaded Brillouin light storage, that achieves…
In recent years, remarkable advances in photonic computing have highlighted the need for photonic memory, particularly high-speed and coherent random-access memory. Addressing the ongoing challenge of implementing photonic memories is…
Quantum memories for optical states are essential resources for quantum communication and information processing. We propose a quantum memory protocol based on coherent photon-phonon transduction in a Brillouin-active optical waveguide…
Recent experiments demonstrating storage of optical pulses in acoustic phonons based on stimulated Brillouin scattering raise a number of questions about the spectral and temporal capacities of such protocols and the limitations of the…
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…
Cascaded Brillouin scattering is increasingly becoming of interest in many areas of pho- tonics (e.g. see [1] and [2]) and has been studied experimentally by many groups. In gain assisted experiments for example up to nearly 800 distinct…
Optomechanical Brillouin nonlinearities -- arising from the coupling between traveling photons and phonons -- have become the basis for a range of powerful optical signal processing and sensing technologies. The dynamics of such…
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…
We theoretically and numerically study the efficiency of Brillouin-based opto-acoustic data storage in a photonic waveguide in the presence of thermal noise and laser phase noise. We compare the physics of the noise processes and how they…
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…