Giant enhancement of stimulated Brillouin scattering in the sub-wavelength limit
By Peter T. Rakich, C. Reinke, Ryan M. Camacho, P. Davids, Z. Wang. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2012
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We show that the nature of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) radically changes at nanoscales due to tremendous internal radiation pressures. Coherent interplay between radiation pressure and electrostriction yields giant enhancement of SBS and tailorable photon-phonon coupling.
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- Non-reciprocal Brillouin scattering induced transparency (2014, background): “Moreover, while this demonstration is in a silica sphere, geometry engineering can be used to obtain enhanced SBS effects [48], much larger electrostriction coefficients can be obtained in chalcogenide glasses [28], and the sign of electrostrictive coupling can even be negative [49].”
- Controlling phonons and photons at the wavelength scale: integrated photonics meets integrated phononics (2018, background): “requires careful engineering of a constructive interference between these contributions [14, 80, 81, 88].”
- Low-power, chip-based stimulated Brillouin scattering microwave photonic filter with ultrahigh selectivity (2014, background): “Although SBS has been widely studied in optical fibers, recently there has been a growing interest in harnessing SBS in nanophotonic waveguides [22-27].”
- Nonlinear photonics with high-Q whispering-gallery-mode resonators (2017, background): “Radiation pressure can also contribute to it in nanoscale devices [267].”
- Compact Brillouin devices through hybrid integration on silicon (2017, unknown): “Initial works have demonstrated large Brillouin gain coefficients [24–26] in excess of 10(3) m−1 W−1, 10(4) times higher than single-mode optical fiber, made possible due to boundary forces which exist in these subwavelength structures [28].”
- Interaction between light and highly confined hypersound in a silicon photonic nanowire (2014, background): “Selecting the right components of P, we find that equations (4) and (5) are modified to”