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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 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

We report a comprehensive experimental study of spontaneous Brillouin scattering in a few-mode optical fiber, resolving both forward and backward scattering processes for intra- and inter-modal interactions. Using heterodyne detection,…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-13 Hikari Kikuchi , Rekishu Yamazaki

Brillouin light scattering measurements were performed in the backscattering geometry on a Bi-substituted rare earth iron garnet. We observed two different peaks, one attributed to a surface spin wave in the dipole-exchange regime. The…

Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy is a powerful technique for the study of fast magnetization dynamics with both frequency- and wavevector resolution. Here, we report on a distinct improvement of this spectroscopic technique towards…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-27 C. W. Sandweg , M. B. Jungfleisch , V. I. Vasyuchka , A. A. Serga , P. Clausen , H. Schultheiss , B. Hillebrands , A. Kreisel , P. Kopietz

We develop a general framework of evaluating the gain coefficient of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) in optical waveguides via the overlap integral between optical and elastic eigen-modes. We show that spatial symmetry of the optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Wenjun Qiu , Peter T. Rakich , Marin Soljacic , Zheng Wang

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…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Eric A. Kittlaus , Nils T. Otterstrom , Peter T. Rakich

We investigated the spin-wave propagation in a micro-structured yttrium iron garnet waveguide of $40$ nm thickness. Utilizing spatially-resolved Brillouin light scattering microscopy, an exponential decay of the spin-wave amplitude of…

We utilize conventional wave-vector-resolved Brillouin light scattering technology to investigate the spin wave response in YIG thin films under high-power microwave excitation. By varying the microwave frequency, external bias magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Guofu Xu , Kang An , Wenjun Ma , Xiling Li , C. K. Ong , Chi Zhang , Guozhi Chai

Stimulated Brillouin scattering recently allowed experimental excitation of surface acoustic resonances in micro-devices, enabling vibration at rates in the range of 50 MHz to 12 GHz. The experimental availability of such mechanical…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 John Zehnpfennig , Gaurav Bahl , Matthew Tomes , Tal Carmon

We present a novel mechanism for generating a wide bandwidth squeezed optical output field in an opto-magnomechanical system. In this system, the magnon (mechanical) mode in the yttrium-iron-garnet crystal is coupled to the microwave field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Ke Di , Shuai Tan , Anyu Cheng , Yinxue Zhao , Yu Liu , Jiajia Du

The simultaneous control of optical and mechanical waves has enabled a range of fundamental and technological breakthroughs, from the demonstration of ultra-stable frequency reference devices to the exploration of the quantum-classical…

We formulate a generic concept of engineering optical modes and mechanical resonances in a pair of optically-coupled light-guiding membranes for achieving cascaded light scattering to multiple Stokes and anti-Stokes orders. By utilizing the…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-13 R. E. Noskov , J. R. Koehler , A. A. Sukhorukov

Stimulated Brillouin scattering has attracted renewed interest with the promise of highly tailorable integration into the silicon photonics platform. However, significant Brillouin amplification in silicon waveguides has yet to be shown. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Raphaël Van Laer , Bart Kuyken , Dries Van Thourhout , Roel Baets

Magnons, the quanta of spin waves, are magnetic excitations of matter spanning through the entire crystal's Brillouin zone and covering a wide range of frequencies ranging from sub-gigahertz to hundreds of terahertz. Magnons play a crucial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Jakub Krčma , Ondřej Wojewoda , Martin Hrtoň , Jakub Holobrádek , Jon Ander Arregi , Jaganandha Panda , Michal Urbánek

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 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

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

Stimulated Brillouin interaction between sound and light, known to be the strongest optical nonlinearity common to all amorphous and crystalline dielectrics, has been widely studied in fibers and bulk materials but rarely in optical…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-13 Gaurav Bahl , John Zehnpfennig , Matthew Tomes , Tal Carmon

We demonstrate large normal-mode splitting between a magnetostatic mode (the Kittel mode) in a ferromagnetic sphere of yttrium iron garnet and a microwave cavity mode. Strong coupling is achieved in the quantum regime where the average…