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Time-domain Brillouin scattering is an opto-acousto-optical probe technique for the evaluation of the transparent materials. Ultrashort pump laser pulses via optoacoustic conversion launch in the sample picosecond coherent acoustic pulses.…
We report on the realization of scalable single-photon sources (SPSs) based on single site-controlled quantum dots (SCQDs) and deterministically fabricated microlenses. The fabrication process comprises the buried-stressor growth technique…
Optical vortices, which have been extensively studied over the last decades, offer an additional degree of freedom useful in many applications, such as optical tweezers and quantum control. Stimulated Brillouin scattering, providing a…
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,…
We develop a novel approach to enable the full-wave simulation of stimulated Brillouin scattering and related phenomena in a frequency-domain, finite-element environment. The method uses transformation optics techniques to implement a…
We develop a statistical theory of stimulated Brillouin backscatter (BSBS) of a spatially and temporally partially incoherent laser beam for laser fusion relevant plasma. We find a new collective regime of BSBS (CBSBS) with intensity…
Plasma-based parametric amplification using stimulated Brillouin scattering offers a route to coherent x-ray pulses orders-of-magnitude more intense than those of the brightest available sources. Brillouin amplification permits…
This thesis studies the interaction between near-infrared light and gigahertz sound in nanoscale silicon waveguides. Chapter 2 introduces photon-phonon coupling and its theoretical description, describing basic mechanisms and developing a…
We present a numerical method for modelling noise in Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS). The model applies to dynamic cases such as optical pulses, and accounts for both thermal noise and phase noise from the input lasers. Using this…
Brillouin spectroscopy is a powerful optical technique for viscoelastic characterization of samples without contact. However, like all optical systems, Brillouin spectroscopy performances are degraded by optical aberrations, and have…
Probing forces, deformations and generally speaking the mechanical properties of cells is the hallmark of mechanobiology. In the last two decades many techniques have been developed to this end that are largely based on deforming the cells…
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…
Recent years witnessed much broader use of Brillouin inelastic light scattering spectroscopy for the investigation of phonons and magnons in novel materials, nanostructures, and devices. Driven by developments in instrumentation and the…
Photonic integration on plastic substrates enables emerging applications ranging from flexible interconnects to conformal sensors on biological tissues. Such devices are traditionally fabricated using pattern transfer, which is complicated…
Microwave frequency acousto-optic modulation is realized by exciting high overtone bulk acoustic wave resonances (HBAR resonances) in the photonic stack. These confined mechanical stress waves transmit exhibit vertically transmitting, high…
The integrated devices that generate structured optical fields with non-trivial orbital angular momentum (OAM) hold great potential for advanced optical applications, but are restricted to complex nanostructures and static functionalities.…
Ultra-narrow optical spectral features resulting from highly dispersive light-matter interactions are essential for a broad range of applications such as spectroscopy, slow-light, and high-precision sensing. Features approaching sub-MHz, or…
An efficient method to describe the nonlinear evolution of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in long scale-length plasmas is presented. The method is based on a decomposition of the hydrodynamics variables in long- and short-wavelength…
Silicon photonic devices are poised to enter high volume markets such as data-communications, telecommunications, biological sensing, and optical phased arrays; however, permanently attaching a fiber to the photonic chip with high optical…