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Feng P, Zhang JX, Ran MY, Wu XT, Lin H, Zhu QL. Rare-earth-based chalcogenides and their derivatives: an encouraging IR nonlinear optical material candidate. Chem Sci 2024; 15:5869-5896. [PMID: 38665521 PMCID: PMC11041271 DOI: 10.1039/d4sc00697f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2024] [Accepted: 03/03/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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With the continuous development of laser technology and the increasing demand for lasers of different frequencies in the infrared (IR) spectrum, research on infrared nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals has garnered growing attention. Currently, the three main commercially available types of borate materials each have their drawbacks, which limit their applications in various areas. Rare-earth (RE)-based chalcogenide compounds, characterized by the unique f-electron configuration, strong positive charges, and high coordination numbers of RE cations, often exhibit distinctive optical responses. In the field of IR-NLO crystals, they have a research history spanning several decades, with increasing interest. However, there is currently no comprehensive review summarizing and analyzing these promising compounds. In this review, we categorize 85 representative examples out of more than 400 non-centrosymmetric (NCS) compounds into four classes based on the connection of different asymmetric building motifs: (1) RE-based chalcogenides containing tetrahedral motifs; (2) RE-based chalcogenides containing lone-pair-electron motifs; (3) RE-based chalcogenides containing [BS3] and [P2Q6] motifs; and (4) RE-based chalcohalides and oxychalcogenides. We provide detailed discussions on their synthesis methods, structures, optical properties, and structure-performance relationships. Finally, we present several favorable suggestions to further explore RE-based chalcogenide compounds. These suggestions aim to approach these compounds from a new perspective in the field of structural chemistry and potentially uncover hidden treasures within the extensive accumulation of previous research.
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- Ping Feng
- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou Fujian 350002 China
- Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China Fujian 350108 China
- College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University Fuzhou 350002 China
- Fujian College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou 350002 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou Fujian 350002 China
- Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China Fujian 350108 China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou Fujian 350002 China
- Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China Fujian 350108 China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou Fujian 350002 China
- Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China Fujian 350108 China
- Fujian College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou 350002 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou Fujian 350002 China
- Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China Fujian 350108 China
- Fujian College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou 350002 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou Fujian 350002 China
- Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China Fujian 350108 China
- Fujian College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou 350002 China
- Fujian Key Laboratory of Rare-earth Functional Materials, Fujian Shanhai Collaborative Innovation Center of Rare-earth Functional Materials Longyan 366300 China
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Blázquez Martínez L, Wiedemann P, Zhu C, Geilen A, Stiller B. Optoacoustic Cooling of Traveling Hypersound Waves. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 132:023603. [PMID: 38277609 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.023603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Revised: 11/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/28/2024]
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We experimentally demonstrate optoacoustic cooling via stimulated Brillouin-Mandelstam scattering in a 50 cm long tapered photonic crystal fiber. For a 7.38 GHz acoustic mode, a cooling rate of 219 K from room temperature has been achieved. As anti-Stokes and Stokes Brillouin processes naturally break the symmetry of phonon cooling and heating, resolved sideband schemes are not necessary. The experiments pave the way to explore the classical to quantum transition for macroscopic objects and could enable new quantum technologies in terms of storage and repeater schemes.
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- Laura Blázquez Martínez
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Staudtstr. 2, 91058, Erlangen, Germany and Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 7, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Staudtstr. 2, 91058, Erlangen, Germany and Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 7, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Staudtstr. 2, 91058, Erlangen, Germany and Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 7, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Staudtstr. 2, 91058, Erlangen, Germany and Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 7, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Staudtstr. 2, 91058, Erlangen, Germany and Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 7, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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Chen CW, Nguyen LV, Wisal K, Wei S, Warren-Smith SC, Henderson-Sapir O, Schartner EP, Ahmadi P, Ebendorff-Heidepriem H, Stone AD, Ottaway DJ, Cao H. Mitigating stimulated Brillouin scattering in multimode fibers with focused output via wavefront shaping. Nat Commun 2023; 14:7343. [PMID: 37957145 PMCID: PMC10643398 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42806-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 10/20/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023] Open
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The key challenge for high-power delivery through optical fibers is overcoming nonlinear optical effects. To keep a smooth output beam, most techniques for mitigating optical nonlinearities are restricted to single-mode fibers. Moving out of the single-mode paradigm, we show experimentally that wavefront-shaping of coherent input light to a highly multimode fiber can increase the power threshold for stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) by an order of magnitude, whilst simultaneously controlling the output beam profile. The SBS suppression results from an effective broadening of the Brillouin spectrum under multimode excitation, without broadening of transmitted light. Strongest suppression is achieved with selective mode excitation that gives the broadest Brillouin spectrum. Our method is efficient, robust, and applicable to continuous waves and pulses. This work points toward a promising route for mitigating detrimental nonlinear effects in optical fibers, enabling further power scaling of high-power fiber systems for applications to directed energy, remote sensing, and gravitational-wave detection.
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- Chun-Wei Chen
- Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
- Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA, 5095, Australia
- Laser Physics and Photonics Devices Laboratories, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA, 5095, Australia
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- Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
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- Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia.
- Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA, 5095, Australia.
- Laser Physics and Photonics Devices Laboratories, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA, 5095, Australia.
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- Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
- OzGrav-Adelaide, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
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- Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
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- Coherent, 1280 Blue Hills Avenue, Bloomfield, CT, 06002, USA
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- Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
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- Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
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- Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
- OzGrav-Adelaide, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
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- Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
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Wang N, Wen H, Alvarado Zacarias JC, Antonio-Lopez JE, Zhang Y, Cruz Delgado D, Sillard P, Schülzgen A, Saleh BEA, Amezcua-Correa R, Li G. Laser 2: A two-domain photon-phonon laser. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eadg7841. [PMID: 37390201 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg7841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 07/02/2023]
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The laser is one of the greatest inventions in history. Because of its ubiquitous applications and profound societal impact, the concept of the laser has been extended to other physical domains including phonon lasers and atom lasers. Quite often, a laser in one physical domain is pumped by energy in another. However, all lasers demonstrated so far have only lased in one physical domain. We have experimentally demonstrated simultaneous photon and phonon lasing in a two-mode silica fiber ring cavity via forward intermodal stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) mediated by long-lived flexural acoustic waves. This two-domain laser may find potential applications in optical/acoustic tweezers, optomechanical sensing, microwave generation, and quantum information processing. Furthermore, we believe that this demonstration will usher in other multidomain lasers and related applications.
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- Ning Wang
- CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA
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- CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA
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- CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA
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- CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA
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- Prysmian Group, Parc des Industried Artois Flandres, Douvrin 62138, France
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- CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA
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- CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA
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- CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA
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- CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA
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Chow DM, Yun SH. Pulsed stimulated Brillouin microscopy. OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 31:19818-19827. [PMID: 37381389 PMCID: PMC10316751 DOI: 10.1364/oe.489158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2023] [Revised: 04/24/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023]
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Stimulated Brillouin scattering is an emerging technique for probing the mechanical properties of biological samples. However, the nonlinear process requires high optical intensities to generate sufficient signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Here, we show that the SNR of stimulated Brillouin scattering can exceed that of spontaneous Brillouin scattering with the same average power levels suitable for biological samples. We verify the theoretical prediction by developing a novel scheme using low duty cycle, nanosecond pulses for the pump and probe. A shot noise-limited SNR over 1000 was measured with a total average power of 10 mW for 2 ms or 50 mW for 200 µs integration on water samples. High-resolution maps of Brillouin frequency shift, linewidth, and gain amplitude from cells in vitro are obtained with a spectral acquisition time of 20 ms. Our results demonstrate the superior SNR of pulsed stimulated Brillouin over spontaneous Brillouin microscopy.
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- Desmond M. Chow
- Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Hansen SE, Arregui G, Babar AN, Albrechtsen M, Vosoughi Lahijani B, Christiansen RE, Stobbe S. Efficient low-reflection fully etched vertical free-space grating couplers for suspended silicon photonics. OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 31:17424-17436. [PMID: 37381477 DOI: 10.1364/oe.485356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2023] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023]
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We design and fabricate a grating coupler for interfacing suspended silicon photonic membranes with free-space optics while being compatible with single-step lithography and etching in 220 nm silicon device layers. The grating coupler design simultaneously and explicitly targets both high transmission into a silicon waveguide and low reflection back into the waveguide by means of a combination of a two-dimensional shape-optimization step followed by a three-dimensional parameterized extrusion. The designed coupler has a transmission of -6.6 dB (21.8 %), a 3 dB bandwidth of 75 nm, and a reflection of -27 dB (0.2 %). We experimentally validate the design by fabricating and optically characterizing a set of devices that allow the subtraction of all other sources of transmission losses as well as the inference of back-reflections from Fabry-Pérot fringes, and we measure a transmission of 19 % ± 2 %, a bandwidth of 65 nm and a reflection of 1.0 % ± 0.8 %.
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Wang F, Yuan J, Yang S, Potapov AA, Zhang X, Liang Z, Feng T. Compact ring resonators of silicon nanorods for strong optomechanical interaction. NANOSCALE 2023; 15:4982-4990. [PMID: 36786450 DOI: 10.1039/d2nr06449a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Optomechanical interaction in microstructures plays a more and more important role in the fields of quantum technology, information processing, and sensing, among others. It is still a challenge to obtain a strong optomechanical interaction in a compact device. Here, we propose and demonstrate that compact ring resonators consisting of silicon nanorods can realize strong optomechanical interaction even surpassing that of most optical microcavities. The proposed ring resonators can well confine infrared optical waves by the quasi-bound states in the continuum. Meanwhile, each nanorod in the resonator acts as a mechanical resonator of GHz resonating frequency, thus realizing an optomechanical coupling rate of up to 1.8 MHz. We have found that the interaction area can be extended by increasing the number of nanorods while maintaining the optomechanical interaction strength. Finally, we have studied the influence of supporting structures for suspended nanorods on the optomechanical interaction properties. The proposed ring resonators of silicon nanorods offer a promising platform for the study of optomechanical interaction.
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- Fugen Wang
- Department of Electronic Engineering, College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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- Joint Laboratory of Digital Optical Chip, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, China
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- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
- Joint Laboratory of Digital Optical Chip, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, China
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Jin D, Bai Z, Li M, Yang X, Wang Y, Mildren RP, Lu Z. Modeling and characterization of high-power single frequency free-space Brillouin lasers. OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 31:2942-2955. [PMID: 36785296 DOI: 10.1364/oe.476759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Free-space Brillouin lasers (BLs) are capable of generating high-power, narrow-linewidth laser outputs at specific wavelengths. Although there have been impressive experimental demonstrations of these lasers, there is an absence of a corresponding theory that describes the dynamic processes that occur within them. This paper presents a time-independent analytical model that describes the generation of the first-order Stokes field within free-space BLs. This model is based on the cavity resonance enhancement theory and coupled wave equations that govern the processes of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). This model is validated using an experimental diamond BL to numerically simulate the influence of the cavity design parameters on the SBS threshold, pump enhancement characteristics, and power of the generated Stokes field. Specifically, the model is used to determine the SBS cavity coupler reflectance to yield the maximum Stokes field output power and efficiency, which is also a function of the pump power and other cavity design parameters. This analysis shows that the appropriate choice of Brillouin cavity coupler reflectance maximizes the Stokes field output power for a given pump power. Furthermore, the onset of higher-order Stokes fields that are undesirable in the context of single-frequency laser operation were inhibited. This study aids in understanding the relationship between the cavity parameters and resultant laser characteristics for the design and optimization of laser systems.
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Xiong J, Huang Z, Cui K, Feng X, Liu F, Zhang W, Huang Y. Phonon and photon lasing dynamics in optomechanical cavities. FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 3:37-44. [PMID: 38933563 PMCID: PMC11197605 DOI: 10.1016/j.fmre.2022.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2022] [Revised: 09/12/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Lasers differ from other light sources in that they are coherent, and their coherence makes them indispensable to both fundamental research and practical application. In optomechanical cavities, photon and phonon lasing is facilitated by the ability of photons and phonons to interact intensively and excite one another coherently. The lasing linewidths of both phonons and photons are critical for practical application. This study investigates the lasing linewidths of photons and phonons from the underlying dynamics in an optomechanical cavity. We find that the linewidths can be accounted for by two distinct physical mechanisms in two regimes, namely the normal regime and the reversed regime, where the intrinsic optical decay rate is either larger or smaller than the intrinsic mechanical decay rate. In the normal regime, an ultra-narrow spectral linewidth of 5.4 kHz for phonon lasing at 6.22 GHz can be achieved regardless of the linewidth of the pump light, while these results are counterintuitively unattainable for photon lasing in the reversed regime. These results pave the way towards harnessing the coherence of both photons and phonons in silicon photonic devices and reshaping their spectra, potentially opening up new technologies in sensing, metrology, spectroscopy, and signal processing, as well as in applications requiring sources that offer an ultra-high degree of coherence.
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- Jian Xiong
- Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Beijing 100084, China
- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Science, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Beijing 100084, China
- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Science, Beijing 100193, China
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Jin D, Bai Z, Lu Z, Fan R, Zhao Z, Yang X, Wang Y, Mildren RP. 22.5-W narrow-linewidth diamond Brillouin laser at 1064 nm. OPTICS LETTERS 2022; 47:5360-5363. [PMID: 36240362 DOI: 10.1364/ol.471447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2022] [Accepted: 09/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS), with its advantages of low quantum defect and narrow gain bandwidth, has recently enabled an exciting path toward narrow-linewidth and low-noise lasers. Whereas almost all work to date has been in guided-wave configurations, adaptation to unguided Brillouin lasers (BLs) offers a greater capacity for power scaling, cascaded Stokes control, and greater flexibility for expanding wavelength range. Here, we report a diamond Brillouin laser (DBL) employing doubly resonant technology at 1064 nm. Brillouin output power of 22.5 W with a linewidth of 46.9 kHz is achieved. The background noise from the pump amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) is suppressed by 35 dB. The work represents a significant step toward realizing Brillouin oscillators that simultaneously have high power (tens-of-watts+) and kHz-linewidths.
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Botter R, Ye K, Klaver Y, Suryadharma R, Daulay O, Liu G, van den Hoogen J, Kanger L, van der Slot P, Klein E, Hoekman M, Roeloffzen C, Liu Y, Marpaung D. Guided-acoustic stimulated Brillouin scattering in silicon nitride photonic circuits. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2022; 8:eabq2196. [PMID: 36206345 PMCID: PMC9544327 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq2196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Coherent optomechanical interaction known as stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) can enable ultrahigh resolution signal processing and narrow-linewidth lasers. SBS has recently been studied extensively in integrated waveguides; however, many implementations rely on complicated fabrication schemes. The absence of SBS in standard and mature fabrication platforms prevents its large-scale circuit integration. Notably, SBS in the emerging silicon nitride (Si3N4) photonic integration platform is currently out of reach because of the lack of acoustic guidance. Here, we demonstrate advanced control of backward SBS in multilayer Si3N4 waveguides. By optimizing the separation between two Si3N4 layers, we unlock acoustic waveguiding in this platform, potentially leading up to 15× higher Brillouin gain coefficient than previously possible in Si3N4 waveguides. We use the enhanced SBS gain to demonstrate a high-rejection microwave photonic notch filter. This demonstration opens a path to achieving Brillouin-based photonic circuits in a standard, low-loss Si3N4 platform.
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- Roel Botter
- Nonlinear Nanophotonics, MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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- Nonlinear Nanophotonics, MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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- Nonlinear Nanophotonics, MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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- Nonlinear Nanophotonics, MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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- Nonlinear Nanophotonics, MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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- Nonlinear Nanophotonics, MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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- Nonlinear Nanophotonics, MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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- Nonlinear Nanophotonics, MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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- Nonlinear Nanophotonics, MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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- Institute of Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Nonlinear Nanophotonics, MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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Liu K, Yao S, Ding Y, Wang Z, Guo Y, Yan J, Wang J, Yang C, Bao C. Fundamental linewidth of an AlN microcavity Raman laser. OPTICS LETTERS 2022; 47:4295-4298. [PMID: 36048637 DOI: 10.1364/ol.466195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 07/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Raman lasing can be a promising way to generate highly coherent chip-based lasers, especially in high-quality (high-Q) crystalline microcavities. Here, we measure the fundamental linewidth of a stimulated Raman laser in an aluminum nitride (AlN)-on-sapphire microcavity with a record Q-factor up to 3.7 million. An inverse relationship between fundamental linewidth and emission power is observed. A limit of the fundamental linewidth, independent of Q-factor, due to Raman-pump-induced Kerr parametric oscillation is derived.
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Zhao Z, Bai Z, Jin D, Chen X, Qi Y, Ding J, Yan B, Wang Y, Lu Z, Mildren RP. The Influence of Noise Floor on the Measurement of Laser Linewidth Using Short-Delay-Length Self-Heterodyne/Homodyne Techniques. MICROMACHINES 2022; 13:1311. [PMID: 36014233 PMCID: PMC9416656 DOI: 10.3390/mi13081311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2022] [Revised: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Delayed self-heterodyne/homodyne measurements based on an unbalanced interferometer are the most used methods for measuring the linewidth of narrow-linewidth lasers. They typically require the service of a delay of six times (or greater) than the laser coherence time to guarantee the Lorentzian characteristics of the beat notes. Otherwise, the beat notes are displayed as a coherent envelope. The linewidth cannot be directly determined from the coherence envelope. However, measuring narrow linewidths using traditional methods introduces significant errors due to the 1/f frequency noise. Here, a short fiber-based linewidth measurement scheme was proposed, and the influence of the noise floor on the measurement of the laser linewidth using this scheme was studied theoretically and experimentally. The results showed that this solution and calibration process is capable of significantly improving the measurement accuracy of narrow linewidth.
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- Zhongan Zhao
- Center for Advanced Laser Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Technology and Equipment, Tianjin 300401, China
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- Center for Advanced Laser Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Technology and Equipment, Tianjin 300401, China
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- Center for Advanced Laser Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Technology and Equipment, Tianjin 300401, China
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Center for Advanced Laser Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Technology and Equipment, Tianjin 300401, China
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- Center for Advanced Laser Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Technology and Equipment, Tianjin 300401, China
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- Center for Advanced Laser Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Technology and Equipment, Tianjin 300401, China
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- Center for Advanced Laser Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Technology and Equipment, Tianjin 300401, China
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- Center for Advanced Laser Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Technology and Equipment, Tianjin 300401, China
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- MQ Photonics Research Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
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Li P, Ou JY, Mashanovich GZ, Yan J. Tailorable stimulated Brillouin scattering in a partially suspended aluminium nitride waveguide in the visible range. OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 30:27092-27108. [PMID: 36236887 DOI: 10.1364/oe.462356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) has been widely applied in narrow line-width laser, microwave filters, optical gyroscopes, and other fields. However, most research is limited within near-infrared to mid-infrared range. This is due to the limited transparent window in most materials, such as silicon and germanium. Aluminium nitride (AlN) is a novel III-V material with a wide transparent window from 200 nm and an appropriate refractive index to confine the light. In this paper, we first validate the full-vectorial formalism to calculate SBS gain based on the measured results from a silicon platform. Compared to previous research, our model achieves higher accuracy in terms of frequency, Q factor, as well as Brillouin gain coefficient without modifying the waveguide width. It also reveals the importance of matching rotation matrix and crystalline coordinate system. Then, we investigate the SBS in a partially suspended AlN waveguide at 450 nm based on the validated method. It shows a wide tunability in frequency from 16 GHz to 32 GHz for forward SBS and a range from 42 GHz to 49 GHz for backward SBS. We numerically obtain the value of Brillouin gain of 1311 W-1m-1 when Q factor is dominated by anchor loss for forward SBS of transverse electric mode. We also find out that in the case for forward SBS of transverse-magnetic mode, anchor loss could be greatly suppressed when the node point of the selected acoustic mode matches with the position of pillar anchor. Our findings, to the best of our knowledge, pave a new way to obtain Brillouin-related applications in integrated photonic circuit within the visible range.
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Fibre lasers based on backward stimulated Brillouin scattering provide narrow linewidths and serve in signal processing and sensing applications. Stimulated Brillouin scattering in fibres takes place in the forward direction as well, with amplification bandwidths that are narrower by two orders of magnitude. However, forward Brillouin lasers have yet to be realized in any fibre platform. In this work, we report a first forward Brillouin fibre laser, using a bare off-the-shelf, panda-type polarisation maintaining fibre. Pump light in one principal axis provides Brillouin amplification for a co-propagating lasing signal of the orthogonal polarisation. Feedback is provided by Bragg gratings at both ends of the fibre cavity. Single-mode, few-modes and multi-mode regimes of operation are observed. The lasing threshold exhibits a unique environmental sensitivity: it is elevated when the fibre is partially immersed in water due to the broadening of forward Brillouin scattering spectra. The results establish a new type of fibre laser, with potential for ultra-high coherence and precision sensing of media outside the cladding. Highly-coherent and narrow linewidth fibre lasers are determinant in several sensing techniques. Here the authors develop a laser based on forward Brillouin scattering achieving ultra high coherence in single-, few- and multi-mode operation regimes.
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Loh W, Kharas D, Maxson R, West GN, Medeiros A, Braje D, Juodawlkis PW, McConnell R. Cooling of an integrated Brillouin laser below the thermal limit. OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 30:22562-22571. [PMID: 36224951 DOI: 10.1364/oe.451622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2021] [Accepted: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Photonically integrated resonators are promising as a platform for enabling ultranarrow linewidth lasers in a compact form factor. Owing to their small size, these integrated resonators suffer from thermal noise that limits the frequency stability of the optical mode to ∼100 kHz. Here, we demonstrate an integrated stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) laser based on a large mode-volume annulus resonator that realizes an ultranarrow thermal-noise-limited linewidth of 270 Hz. In practice, yet narrower linewidths are required before integrated lasers can be truly useful for applications such as optical atomic clocks, quantum computing, gravitational wave detection, and precision spectroscopy. To this end, we employ a thermorefractive noise suppression technique utilizing an auxiliary laser to reduce our SBS laser linewidth to 70 Hz. This demonstration showcases the possibility of stabilizing the thermal motion of even the narrowest linewidth chip lasers to below 100 Hz, thereby opening the door to making integrated microresonators practical for the most demanding future scientific endeavors.
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Deng Z, Li L, Zhang J, Yao J. Single-mode narrow-linewidth fiber ring laser with SBS-assisted parity-time symmetry for mode selection. OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 30:20809-20819. [PMID: 36224817 DOI: 10.1364/oe.458648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 05/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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A single-longitudinal-mode narrow-linewidth fiber ring laser with stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) assisted parity-time (PT) symmetry for mode selection in a single fiber loop is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. When an optical pump is launched into the fiber loop along one direction, an SBS gain for the Stokes light along the opposite direction is produced. For two light waves at the Stokes frequency propagating along the two opposite directions, one will have a net gain and the other will have a net loss. By incorporating a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) with partial reflection in the loop, mutual coupling between the two counterpropagating Stokes light waves is achieved. The SBS gain can be controlled by tuning the angle between the polarization directions of the pump and the Stokes light waves through a polarization controller (PC). Once the gain and loss coefficients between the two counterpropagating light waves are controlled to be identical in magnitude, and that the gain coefficient is greater than the coupling coefficient caused by the FBG, PT symmetry breaking is achieved, making the mainmode to sidemode ratio highly enhanced, single mode lasing is thus achieved. The approach is evaluated experimentally. For a fiber ring laser with a cavity length of 8.02 km, single-mode lasing with a narrow 3-dB linewidth of 368 Hz and a sidemode suppression ratio of around 33 dB is demonstrated. The wavelength tunable range from 1550.02 to 1550.18 nm is also demonstrated.
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Qin Y, Ding S, Zhang M, Wang Y, Shi Q, Li Z, Wen J, Xiao M, Jiang X. High-power, low-noise Brillouin laser on a silicon chip. OPTICS LETTERS 2022; 47:1638-1641. [PMID: 35363697 DOI: 10.1364/ol.455369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2022] [Accepted: 02/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We realize a chip-based Brillouin microlaser with remarkable features of high power and low noise using a microtoroid resonator. Our Brillouin microlaser is able to output a power of up to 126 mW with a fundamental linewidth down to 245 mHz. Additionally, in the course of Brillouin lasing we observe an intriguing power saturation-like effect, which can be attributed to complex thermo-optic-effect-induced mode mismatch between the pump and Brillouin modes. To have a quantitative understanding of this phenomenon, we develop a model by simultaneously considering Brillouin lasing and the thermo-optic effect occurring in the microcavity. Of importance, our theoretical results match well with experimentally measured data.
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Yang F, Gyger F, Godet A, Chrétien J, Zhang L, Pang M, Beugnot JC, Thévenaz L. Large evanescently-induced Brillouin scattering at the surrounding of a nanofibre. Nat Commun 2022; 13:1432. [PMID: 35301307 PMCID: PMC8931049 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29051-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2021] [Accepted: 01/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Brillouin scattering has been widely exploited for advanced photonics functionalities such as microwave photonics, signal processing, sensing, lasing, and more recently in micro- and nano-photonic waveguides. Most of the works have focused on the opto-acoustic interaction driven from the core region of micro- and nano-waveguides. Here we observe, for the first time, an efficient Brillouin scattering generated by an evanescent field nearby a single-pass sub-wavelength waveguide embedded in a pressurised gas cell, with a maximum gain coefficient of 18.90 ± 0.17 m-1W-1. This gain is 11 times larger than the highest Brillouin gain obtained in a hollow-core fibre and 79 times larger than in a standard single-mode fibre. The realisation of strong free-space Brillouin scattering from a waveguide benefits from the flexibility of confined light while providing a direct access to the opto-acoustic interaction, as required in free-space optoacoustics such as Brillouin spectroscopy and microscopy. Therefore, our work creates an important bridge between Brillouin scattering in waveguides, Brillouin spectroscopy and microscopy, and opens new avenues in light-sound interactions, optomechanics, sensing, lasing and imaging.
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- Fan Yang
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Group for Fibre Optics, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Group for Fibre Optics, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany
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- FEMTO-ST Institute, UMR 6174, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 25030, Besançon, France
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- FEMTO-ST Institute, UMR 6174, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 25030, Besançon, France
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Group for Fibre Optics, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS, Shanghai, 201800, China
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- FEMTO-ST Institute, UMR 6174, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 25030, Besançon, France.
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Group for Fibre Optics, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Yang S, Wan L, Wang F, Potapov AA, Feng T. Strong optomechanical coupling in chain-like waveguides of silicon nanoparticles with quasi-bound states in the continuum. OPTICS LETTERS 2021; 46:4466-4469. [PMID: 34525023 DOI: 10.1364/ol.436316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2021] [Accepted: 08/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We propose and demonstrate that strong optomechanical coupling can be achieved in a chain-like waveguide consisting of silicon nanorods. By employing quasi-bound states in the continuum and mechanical resonances at a frequency around 10 GHz, the optomechanical coupling rate can be above 2 MHz and surpass most microcavities. We have also studied cases with different optical wave numbers and size parameters of silicon, and a robust coupling rate has been verified, benefiting the experimental measurements and practical applications. The proposed silicon chain-like waveguide of strong optomechanical coupling may pave new ways for research on photon-phonon interaction with microstructures.
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Kim H, Shin H. Active Information Manipulation via Optically Driven Acoustic-Wave Interference. NANO LETTERS 2021; 21:7270-7276. [PMID: 34410140 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Implementing on-chip information processing systems through photonic-phononic interactions has attracted considerable interest owing to its potential for storing, sensing, and signal processing, but the generation and extinction of acoustic waves are determined by the existence of pump power and the phonon lifetime. Here, we demonstrate the acoustic-wave interference and active information manipulation by optically driven acoustic waves in a silicon photonic-phononic controller-emitter-receiver system. The filtered and transmitted information to the receiver has a narrow bandwidth of 6.2 MHz and can be amplified or canceled with a contrast greater than 40 dB by adjusting the relative microwave phase between the emitter and controller. The pulse-train signals can be transmitted, amplified, and canceled with a 3 dB cutoff frequency of 3.1 MHz. The proposed technique provides a potential solution for highly selective on-chip filtering, phase shifters, and information manipulation, offering new functions to optomechanical signal processing and silicon photonics.
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- Hyeongpin Kim
- Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Korea
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- Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Korea
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Bashan G, Diamandi HH, London Y, Sharma K, Shemer K, Zehavi E, Zadok A. Forward stimulated Brillouin scattering and opto-mechanical non-reciprocity in standard polarization maintaining fibres. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2021; 10:119. [PMID: 34092787 PMCID: PMC8180518 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-021-00557-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Revised: 04/30/2021] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Opto-mechanical interactions in guided wave media are drawing great interest in fundamental research and applications. Forward stimulated Brillouin scattering, in particular, is widely investigated in optical fibres and photonic integrated circuits. In this work, we report a comprehensive study of forward stimulated Brillouin scattering over standard, panda-type polarization maintaining fibres. We distinguish between intra-polarization scattering, in which two pump tones are co-polarized along one principal axis, and inter-polarization processes driven by orthogonally polarized pump waves. Both processes are quantified in analysis, calculations and experiment. Inter-modal scattering, in particular, introduces cross-polarization switching of probe waves that is non-reciprocal. Switching takes place in multiple wavelength windows. The results provide a first demonstration of opto-mechanical non-reciprocity of forward scatter in standard fibre. The inter-polarization process is applicable to distributed sensors of media outside the cladding and coating boundaries, where light cannot reach. The process may be scaled towards forward Brillouin lasers, optical isolators and circulators and narrowband microwave-photonic filters over longer sections of off-the-shelf polarization maintaining fibres.
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- Gil Bashan
- Faculty of Engineering and Institute for Nano-Technology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002, Israel
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- Faculty of Engineering and Institute for Nano-Technology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002, Israel
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- Faculty of Engineering and Institute for Nano-Technology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002, Israel
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- Faculty of Engineering and Institute for Nano-Technology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002, Israel
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- Faculty of Engineering and Institute for Nano-Technology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002, Israel
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- Faculty of Engineering and Institute for Nano-Technology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002, Israel
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- Faculty of Engineering and Institute for Nano-Technology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002, Israel.
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Zhang PJ, Ji QX, Cao QT, Wang H, Liu W, Gong Q, Xiao YF. Single-mode characteristic of a supermode microcavity Raman laser. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:e2101605118. [PMID: 34035175 PMCID: PMC8179179 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2101605118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Microlasers in near-degenerate supermodes lay the cornerstone for studies of non-Hermitian physics, novel light sources, and advanced sensors. Recent experiments of the stimulated scattering in supermode microcavities reported beating phenomena, interpreted as dual-mode lasing, which, however, contradicts their single-mode nature due to the clamped pump field. Here, we investigate the supermode Raman laser in a whispering-gallery microcavity and demonstrate experimentally its single-mode lasing behavior with a side-mode suppression ratio (SMSR) up to 37 dB, despite the emergence of near-degenerate supermodes by the backscattering between counterpropagating waves. Moreover, the beating signal is recognized as the transient interference during the switching process between the two supermode lasers. Self-injection is exploited to manipulate the lasing supermodes, where the SMSR is further improved by 15 dB and the laser linewidth is below 100 Hz.
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- Pei-Ji Zhang
- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China
- Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China;
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China
- Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China
- Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
- Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, Peking University, Nantong 226010, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China;
- Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
- Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, Peking University, Nantong 226010, China
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Shen Z, Zhang YL, Zou CL, Guo GC, Dong CH. Dissipatively Controlled Optomechanical Interaction via Cascaded Photon-Phonon Coupling. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:163604. [PMID: 33961448 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.163604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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In an optomechanical system, we experimentally engineer the optical density of state to reduce or broaden the effective linewidth of the optical mode by introducing an ancillary mechanical mode, which has a large decay rate, i.e., stimulated backward Brillouin scattering. Based on this dissipation engineering, we could engineer the optical mode linewidth by one order of magnitude. In addition, we can either enhance or suppress the optomechanical cooling and amplification of the target mechanical oscillations. Our scheme demonstrates the cascaded photon-phonon coupling to control the mechanical interactions, and also presents a novel approach for engineering coherent light-matter interaction in hybrid systems, which consist of different types of nonlinear interactions and multiple modes, and promote the performance of quantum devices.
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- Zhen Shen
- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China
- CAS Center For Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China
- CAS Center For Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China
- CAS Center For Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China
- CAS Center For Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China
- CAS Center For Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China
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Nieves OA, Arnold MD, Steel MJ, Schmidt MK, Poulton CG. Noise and pulse dynamics in backward stimulated Brillouin scattering. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:3132-3146. [PMID: 33770919 DOI: 10.1364/oe.414420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2020] [Accepted: 12/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We theoretically and numerically study the effects of thermal noise on pulses in backwards stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). Using a combination of stochastic calculus and numerical methods, we derive a theoretical model that can be used to quantitatively predict noise measurements. We study how the optical pulse configuration, including the input powers of the pump and Stokes fields, pulse durations and interaction time, affects the noise in the output Stokes field. We investigate the effects on the noise of the optical loss and waveguide length, and we find that the signal-to-noise ratio can be significantly improved, or reduced, for specific combinations of waveguide properties and pulse parameters.
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Lake DP, Mitchell M, Sukachev DD, Barclay PE. Processing light with an optically tunable mechanical memory. Nat Commun 2021; 12:663. [PMID: 33510152 PMCID: PMC7844031 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-20899-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Mechanical systems are one of the promising platforms for classical and quantum information processing and are already widely-used in electronics and photonics. Cavity optomechanics offers many new possibilities for information processing using mechanical degrees of freedom; one of them is storing optical signals in long-lived mechanical vibrations by means of optomechanically induced transparency. However, the memory storage time is limited by intrinsic mechanical dissipation. More over, in-situ control and manipulation of the stored signals processing has not been demonstrated. Here, we address both of these limitations using a multi-mode cavity optomechanical memory. An additional optical field coupled to the memory modifies its dynamics through time-varying parametric feedback. We demonstrate that this can extend the memory decay time by an order of magnitude, decrease its effective mechanical dissipation rate by two orders of magnitude, and deterministically shift the phase of a stored field by over 2π. This further expands the information processing toolkit provided by cavity optomechanics.
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- David P Lake
- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
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Zurita RO, Wiederhecker GS, Mayer Alegre TP. Designing of strongly confined short-wave Brillouin phonons in silicon waveguide periodic lattices. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:1736-1748. [PMID: 33726381 DOI: 10.1364/oe.413770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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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 the substrate while providing the needed homogeneity for the build-up of the optomechanical interaction. The coupling factor of these structures was calculated to be GB/Qm = 0.54 (W m)-1 for intramodal backward Brillouin scattering with its fundamental TE-like mode and GB/Qm = 4.5 (W m)-1 for intramodal forward Brillouin scattering. The addition of the phononic crystal provides a 30 dB attenuation of the mechanical displacement after only five unitary cells, possibly leading to a regime where the acoustic losses are only limited by fabrication. As a result, the total Brillouin gain, which is proportional to the product of the coupling and acoustic quality factors, is nominally equal to the idealized fully suspended waveguide.
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Loh W, Stuart J, Reens D, Bruzewicz CD, Braje D, Chiaverini J, Juodawlkis PW, Sage JM, McConnell R. Operation of an optical atomic clock with a Brillouin laser subsystem. Nature 2020; 588:244-249. [PMID: 33299197 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2981-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2020] [Accepted: 10/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Microwave atomic clocks have traditionally served as the 'gold standard' for precision measurements of time and frequency. However, over the past decade, optical atomic clocks1-6 have surpassed the precision of their microwave counterparts by two orders of magnitude or more. Extant optical clocks occupy volumes of more than one cubic metre, and it is a substantial challenge to enable these clocks to operate in field environments, which requires the ruggedization and miniaturization of the atomic reference and clock laser along with their supporting lasers and electronics4,7,8,9. In terms of the clock laser, prior laboratory demonstrations of optical clocks have relied on the exceptional performance gained through stabilization using bulk cavities, which unfortunately necessitates the use of vacuum and also renders the laser susceptible to vibration-induced noise. Here, using a stimulated Brillouin scattering laser subsystem that has a reduced cavity volume and operates without vacuum, we demonstrate a promising component of a portable optical atomic clock architecture. We interrogate a 88Sr+ ion with our stimulated Brillouin scattering laser and achieve a clock exhibiting short-term stability of 3.9 × 10-14 over one second-an improvement of an order of magnitude over state-of-the-art microwave clocks. This performance increase within a potentially portable system presents a compelling avenue for substantially improving existing technology, such as the global positioning system, and also for enabling the exploration of topics such as geodetic measurements of the Earth, searches for dark matter and investigations into possible long-term variations of fundamental physics constants10-12.
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- William Loh
- Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA, USA.
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- Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA, USA.,Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA, USA
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- Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA, USA
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- Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA, USA
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- Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA, USA
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- Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA, USA
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- Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA, USA.,Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA, USA
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Spirin VV, Bueno Escobedo JL, Korobko DA, Mégret P, Fotiadi AA. Dual-frequency laser comprising a single fiber ring cavity for self-injection locking of DFB laser diode and Brillouin lasing. OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 28:37322-37333. [PMID: 33379569 DOI: 10.1364/oe.406040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Low-noise lasers are a powerful tool in precision spectroscopy, displacement measurements, and development of advanced optical atomic clocks. While all applications benefit from lower frequency noise and robust design, some of them also require lasing at two frequencies. Here, we introduce a simple dual-frequency laser leveraging a ring fiber cavity exploited both for self-injection locking of a standard semiconductor distributed feedback (DFB) laser and for generation of Stokes light via stimulated Brillouin scattering. In contrast to the previous laser configurations, the system is supplied by a low-bandwidth active optoelectronic feedback. Importantly, continuous operation of two mutually locked frequencies is provided by self-injection locking, while the active feedback loop is used just to support this regime. The fiber configuration reduces the natural Lorentzian linewidth of light emitted by the laser at pump and Stokes frequencies down to 270 Hz and 110 Hz, respectively, and features a stable 300-Hz-width RF spectrum recorded with beating of two laser outputs. Translating the proposed laser design to integrated photonics will dramatically reduce cost and footprint for many laser applications such as ultra-high capacity fiber and data center networks, atomic clocks, and microwave photonics.
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Yang F, Gyger F, Thévenaz L. Intense Brillouin amplification in gas using hollow-core waveguides. NATURE PHOTONICS 2020; 14:700-708. [PMID: 33824683 PMCID: PMC7610518 DOI: 10.1038/s41566-020-0676-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2019] [Accepted: 07/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Among all the nonlinear effects stimulated Brillouin scattering offers the highest gain in solid materials and has demonstrated advanced photonics functionalities in waveguides. The large compressibility of gases suggests that stimulated Brillouin scattering may gain in efficiency with respect to condensed materials. Here, by using a gas-filled hollow-core fibre at high pressure, we achieve a strong Brillouin amplification per unit length, exceeding by six times the gain observed in fibres with a solid silica core. This large amplification benefits from a higher molecular density and a lower acoustic attenuation at higher pressure, combined with a tight light confinement. Using this approach, we demonstrate the capability to perform large optical amplifications in hollow-core waveguides. The implementations of a low-threshold gas Brillouin fibre laser and a high-performance distributed temperature sensor, intrinsically free of strain cross-sensitivity, illustrate the potential for hollow-core fibres, paving the way to their integration into lasing, sensing and signal processing.
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- Fan Yang
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Group for Fibre Optics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Group for Fibre Optics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Group for Fibre Optics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Dostart N, Popović MA. Mode multiplexer for guided optical and acoustic waves. OPTICS LETTERS 2020; 45:6066-6069. [PMID: 33137070 DOI: 10.1364/ol.404188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 09/26/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Integrated acousto-optic (AO) devices utilize the strong overlap of acoustic and optical fields in a waveguide to facilitate efficient photon-phonon (Brillouin) interactions. For example, acoustic waves offer a lossless modulation mechanism for light. "Brillouin active" photonic platforms are currently being developed that may see optical, acoustic, and AO waveguide circuits on the same chip, where guided light and sound come together in active interaction regions. A key missing component for such a platform is a device that can multiplex modes across these two physical domains. We propose and describe a new class of optical and acoustic components, the "acoustic-optical mode multiplexer" (AOMM), a device that takes respective optical and acoustic waveguides as input ports and couples their excited guided modes into a single, joint output waveguide. We show an example suspended silicon-silicon dioxide design that combines two optical modes and a spatially separate acoustic mode into a single, co-guided output port with low insertion loss down to 0.3 dB for both optical and acoustic modes, and reflection below -20dB and -11dB, respectively. The AOMM may enable new, efficient integrated AO devices, such as isolators and circulators, where the acoustic wave generation and opto-acoustic interaction are separated.
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Wolff C, Mortensen NA. Stimulated plasmon polariton scattering. Nat Commun 2020; 11:4039. [PMID: 32788659 PMCID: PMC7423978 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17810-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2019] [Accepted: 07/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Plasmon and phonon polaritons of two-dimensional (2D) and van-der-Waals materials have recently gained substantial interest. Unfortunately, they are notoriously hard to observe in linear response because of their strong confinement, low frequency and longitudinal mode symmetry. Here, we propose an approach of harnessing nonlinear resonant scattering that we call stimulated plasmon polariton scattering (SPPS) in analogy to the opto-acoustic stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). We show that SPPS allows to excite, amplify and detect 2D plasmon and phonon polaritons all across the THz-range while requiring only optical components in the near-IR or visible range. We present a coupled-mode theory framework for SPPS and based on this find that SPPS power gains exceed the very top gains observed in on-chip SBS by at least an order of magnitude. This opens exciting possibilities to fundamental studies of 2D materials and will help closing the THz gap in spectroscopy and information technology.
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- C Wolff
- Center for Nano Optics, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M, DK-5230, Denmark.
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- Center for Nano Optics, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M, DK-5230, Denmark
- Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M, DK-5230, Denmark
- Center for Nanostructured Graphene, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens, Lyngby, DK-2800, Denmark
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Shao L, Sinclair N, Leatham J, Hu Y, Yu M, Turpin T, Crowe D, Lončar M. Integrated microwave acousto-optic frequency shifter on thin-film lithium niobate. OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 28:23728-23738. [PMID: 32752365 DOI: 10.1364/oe.397138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 07/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Electrically driven acousto-optic devices that provide beam deflection and optical frequency shifting have broad applications from pulse synthesis to heterodyne detection. Commercially available acousto-optic modulators are based on bulk materials and consume Watts of radio frequency power. Here, we demonstrate an integrated 3-GHz acousto-optic frequency shifter on thin-film lithium niobate, featuring a carrier suppression over 30 dB. Further, we demonstrate a gigahertz-spaced optical frequency comb featuring more than 200 lines over a 0.6-THz optical bandwidth by recirculating the light in an active frequency shifting loop. Our integrated acousto-optic platform leads to the development of on-chip optical routing, isolation, and microwave signal processing.
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Harris GI, Sawadsky A, Sfendla YL, Wasserman WW, Bowen WP, Baker CG. Proposal for a quantum traveling Brillouin resonator. OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 28:22450-22461. [PMID: 32752505 DOI: 10.1364/oe.397478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Brillouin systems operating in the quantum regime have recently been identified as a valuable tool for quantum information technologies and fundamental science. However, reaching the quantum regime is extraordinarily challenging, owing to the stringent requirements of combining low thermal occupation with low optical and mechanical dissipation, and large coherent phonon-photon interactions. Here, we propose an on-chip liquid based Brillouin system that is predicted to exhibit large phonon-photon coupling with exceptionally low acoustic dissipation. The system is comprised of a silicon-based "slot" waveguide filled with superfluid helium. This type of waveguide supports optical and acoustical traveling waves, strongly confining both fields into a subwavelength-scale mode volume. It serves as the foundation of an on-chip traveling wave Brillouin resonator with an electrostrictive single photon optomechanical coupling rate exceeding 240 kHz. Such devices may enable applications ranging from ultra-sensitive superfluid-based gyroscopes, to non-reciprocal optical circuits. Furthermore, this platform opens up new possibilities to explore quantum fluid dynamics in a strongly interacting condensate.
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Wen Q, Qin J, Geng Y, Deng G, Zhou Q, Zhou H, Qiu K. Stimulated Brillouin laser-based carrier recovery in a high-Q microcavity for coherent detection. OPTICS LETTERS 2020; 45:3848-3851. [PMID: 32667300 DOI: 10.1364/ol.395270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We demonstrate all-optical carrier recovery exploring a stimulated Brillouin laser (SBL) in a high-Q whispering-gallery-mode microcavity, to achieve coherent data detection without requiring an independent local oscillator laser. An ultra-high optical signal-to-noise ratio better than 70 dB is achieved for the recovered carrier, thanks to the fact that the generated SBL counter-propagates with the incoming data signal and experiences high SBS efficiency. High-frequency stability is obtained between the recovered carrier tone and the original data signal, enabling high-performance coherent detection without the need of electrical frequency drift compensation. This Letter offers a low complexity, high energy efficiency, and high robust carrier recovery solution.
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Zhang J, Ortiz O, Le Roux X, Cassan E, Vivien L, Marris-Morini D, Lanzillotti-Kimura ND, Alonso-Ramos C. Subwavelength engineering for Brillouin gain optimization in silicon optomechanical waveguides. OPTICS LETTERS 2020; 45:3717-3720. [PMID: 32630937 DOI: 10.1364/ol.397081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Brillouin optomechanics has recently emerged as a promising tool to implement new functionalities in silicon photonics, including high-performance opto-RF processing and nonreciprocal light propagation. One key challenge in this field is to maximize the photon-phonon interaction and the phonon lifetime, simultaneously. Here, we propose a new, to the best of our knowledge, strategy that exploits subwavelength engineering of the photonic and phononic modes in silicon membrane waveguides to maximize the Brillouin gain. By properly designing the dimensions of the subwavelength periodic structuration, we tightly confine near-infrared photons and GHz phonons, minimizing leakage losses and maximizing the Brillouin coupling. Our theoretical analysis predicts a high mechanical quality factor of up to 700 and a remarkable Brillouin gain yielding 3500(W⋅m)-1 for minimum feature size of 50 nm, compatible with electron-beam lithography. We believe that the proposed waveguide with subwavelength nanostructure holds great potential for the engineering of Brillouin optomechanical interactions in silicon.
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Korobko DA, Zolotovskii IO, Svetukhin VV, Zhukov AV, Fomin AN, Borisova CV, Fotiadi AA. Detuning effects in Brillouin ring microresonator laser. OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 28:4962-4972. [PMID: 32121726 DOI: 10.1364/oe.382357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2019] [Accepted: 12/21/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Brillouin lasers, with their unique properties, offer an intriguing solution for many applications, yet bringing their performance to integrated platforms has remained questionable. We present a theoretical framework to describe Brillouin lasing in integrated ring microcavities. Specifically, a general case of a mismatch between the Brillouin shift and the microresonator inter-mode spacing is considered. We show that although the lasing threshold is increased with the frequency detuning, a significant enhancement of the laser power in comparison with the pure resonant interaction could be achieved. Moreover, there is an optimal pump frequency detuning from the resonant mode frequency, when the effect is most pronounced. An increase of the Brillouin threshold with the pump frequency detuning is accompanied by narrowing the pump frequency range available for lasing. Importantly, at the optimal value of the pump frequency detuning when the Brillouin signal is maximal, Brillouin signal noise level is minimal. Analytical results obtained in the steady-state approach are in quantitative agreement with the results of numerical simulations.
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Lei M, Fang Y, Yu H, Yang Y, Xiang Q, Zhang L. Frequency tuning ratio testing of a laser via a hollow photonic crystal fiber resonator. APPLIED OPTICS 2020; 59:1404-1409. [PMID: 32225395 DOI: 10.1364/ao.379900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2019] [Accepted: 12/22/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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In order to satisfy the requirements of laser frequency tuning ratio (FTR) measurement, experimental equipment based on a hollow photonic crystal fiber resonator (HPCFR) is proposed in this paper. First, the principle scheme of the equipment consisting of HPCFR is designed, and the resonance curves of the HPCFR are theoretically analyzed, calculated, and simulated; second, the transmissive HPCFR sample is fabricated and the resonance curve is obtained; eventually, the experimental results from the established laser FTR experimental setup demonstrate that the FTRs of a narrow-linewidth fiber laser and semiconductor laser are 17.6 MHz/V and 30.9 MHz/mA, respectively, which are basically in accordance with the factory parameters of the lasers. This work shows that the FTR experimental equipment via HPCFR has the advantages of high precision and good long-term stability.
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Zhou L, Lu Y, Fu Y, Ma H, Du C. Design of a hybrid on-chip waveguide with giant backward stimulated Brillouin scattering. OPTICS EXPRESS 2019; 27:24953-24971. [PMID: 31510376 DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.024953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2019] [Accepted: 08/06/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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On-chip waveguides on insulator with high stimulated Brillouin gain have wide potential application prospects in the field of nanophotonic structures. We propose a new on-chip hybrid silicon-chalcogenide slot waveguide structure consisting of a chalcogenide As2S3 rectangle core with an air slot and a wrapping layer of silicon. In the new hybrid waveguide, the high radiation pressure and electrostriction force, determined by pump and Stokes optical waves, and the acoustic displacement, determined by acoustic wave, can be achieved by adjusting the dimensions of rectangle core, the thickness of wrapping layers and the width of air slot. Therefore, a strong optomechanical coupling between high radiation pressure and transverse acoustic displacement will be generated. In such a way, a nonlinear gain for backward stimulated Brillouin scattering can be theoretically achieved with a high gain coefficient of 2.88×104 W-1m-1. The enhanced gain coefficient in the proposed waveguide is around 2.4 times as that in an on-chip silicon-chalcogenide hybrid slot waveguide on insulator without the wrapping layer. The Stokes amplification reaches 85.7 dB with the waveguide length of 2.5 cm. Therefore, this method provides a new idea to design nanophotonic waveguides for giant backward stimulated Brillouin scattering.
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Kharel P, Harris GI, Kittlaus EA, Renninger WH, Otterstrom NT, Harris JGE, Rakich PT. High-frequency cavity optomechanics using bulk acoustic phonons. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2019; 5:eaav0582. [PMID: 30972362 PMCID: PMC6450694 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav0582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2018] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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To date, microscale and nanoscale optomechanical systems have enabled many proof-of-principle quantum operations through access to high-frequency (gigahertz) phonon modes that are readily cooled to their thermal ground state. However, minuscule amounts of absorbed light produce excessive heating that can jeopardize robust ground-state operation within these microstructures. In contrast, we demonstrate an alternative strategy for accessing high-frequency (13 GHz) phonons within macroscopic systems (centimeter scale) using phase-matched Brillouin interactions between two distinct optical cavity modes. Counterintuitively, we show that these macroscopic systems, with motional masses that are 1 million to 100 million times larger than those of microscale counterparts, offer a complementary path toward robust ground-state operation. We perform both optomechanically induced amplification/transparency measurements and demonstrate parametric instability of bulk phonon modes. This is an important step toward using these beam splitter and two-mode squeezing interactions within bulk acoustic systems for applications ranging from quantum memories and microwave-to-optical conversion to high-power laser oscillators.
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- Prashanta Kharel
- Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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Smith MJA, Wolff C, Poulton CG, Martijn de Sterke C. Stimulated Brillouin scattering in layered media: nanoscale enhancement of silicon. OPTICS LETTERS 2019; 44:1407-1410. [PMID: 30874662 DOI: 10.1364/ol.44.001407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2018] [Accepted: 02/11/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We report a theoretical study of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in general anisotropic media, incorporating the effects of both acoustic strain and local rotation. We apply our general theoretical framework to compute the SBS gain for layered media with periodic length scales smaller than all optical and acoustic wavelengths, where such composites behave like homogeneous anisotropic media. We predict that a layered medium composing nanometer-thin layers of silicon and As2S3 glass has a bulk SBS gain of 1.28×10-9 W-1 m. This is more than 500 times larger than that of silicon and almost double the gain of As2S3. The enhancement is due to a combination of roto-optic, photoelastic, and artificial photoelastic contributions in the composite structure.
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Schmidt MK, Poulton CG, Mashanovich GZ, Reed GT, Eggleton BJ, Steel MJ. Suspended mid-infrared waveguides for Stimulated Brillouin Scattering. OPTICS EXPRESS 2019; 27:4976-4989. [PMID: 30876105 DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.004976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2018] [Accepted: 01/08/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We theoretically investigate a new class of silicon waveguides for achieving Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) in the mid-infrared (MIR). The waveguide consists of a rectangular core supporting a low-loss optical mode, suspended in air by a series of transverse ribs. The ribs are patterned to form a finite quasi-one-dimensional phononic crystal, with the complete stopband suppressing the transverse leakage of acoustic waves, confining them to the core of the waveguide. We derive a theoretical formalism that can be used to compute the opto-acoustic interaction in such periodic structures, and find forward intramodal-SBS gains up to 1750 m-1W-1, which compares favorably with the proposed MIR SBS designs based on buried germanium waveguides. This large gain is achieved thanks to the nearly complete suppression of acoustic radiative losses.
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Multitude applications of photonic devices and technologies for the generation and manipulation of arbitrary and random microwave waveforms, at unprecedented processing speeds, have been proposed in the literature over the past three decades. This class of photonic applications for microwave engineering is known as microwave photonics (MWP). The vast capabilities of MWP have allowed the realization of key functionalities which are either highly complex or simply not possible in the microwave domain alone. Recently, this growing field has adopted the integrated photonics technologies to develop microwave photonic systems with enhanced robustness as well as with a significant reduction of size, cost, weight, and power consumption. In particular, silicon photonics technology is of great interest for this aim as it offers outstanding possibilities for integration of highly-complex active and passive photonic devices, permitting monolithic integration of MWP with high-speed silicon electronics. In this article, we present a review of recent work on MWP functions developed on the silicon platform. We particularly focus on newly reported designs for signal modulation, arbitrary waveform generation, filtering, true-time delay, phase shifting, beam steering, and frequency measurement.
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Brillouin distributed measurement techniques have been extensively developed for structural health monitoring using fibre optic nerve systems. The recent advancement in the spatial resolution capabilities of correlation-based Brillouin distributed technique have reached the sub-mm regime, making this approach a suitable candidate for monitoring and characterizing integrated photonic devices. The small dimension associated with the short length of these devices—on the order of the cm- and mm-scale—requires high sensitivity detection techniques and sub-mm spatial resolution. In this paper, we provide an overview of the different Brillouin sensing techniques in various micro-scale structures such as photonic crystal fibres, microfibres, and on-chip waveguides. We show how Brillouin sensing is capable of detecting fine transverse geometrical features with the sensitivity of a few nm and also extremely small longitudinal features on the order of a few hundreds of μ m . We focus on the technique of Brillouin optical correlation domain analysis (BOCDA), which enables such high spatial resolution for mapping the opto-acoustic responses of micro-scale waveguides.
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Diamandi HH, London Y, Bashan G, Bergman A, Zadok A. Highly-coherent stimulated phonon oscillations in a multi-core optical fiber. Sci Rep 2018; 8:9514. [PMID: 29934556 PMCID: PMC6015028 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-27929-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2018] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Opto-mechanical oscillators that generate coherent acoustic waves are drawing much interest, in both fundamental research and applications. Narrowband oscillations can be obtained through the introduction of feedback to the acoustic wave. Most previous realizations of this concept, sometimes referred to as "phonon lasers", relied on radiation pressure and moving boundary effects in micro- or nano-structured media. Demonstrations in bulk crystals required cryogenic temperatures. In this work, stimulated emission of highly-coherent acoustic waves is achieved in a commercially-available multi-core fiber, at room temperature. The fiber is connected within an opto-electronic cavity loop. Pump light in one core is driving acoustic waves via electrostriction, whereas an optical probe wave at a different physical core undergoes photo-elastic modulation by the stimulated acoustic waves. Coupling between pump and probe is based entirely on inter-core, opto-mechanical cross-phase modulation: no direct optical feedback is provided. Single-frequency mechanical oscillations at hundreds of MHz frequencies are obtained, with side-mode suppression that is better than 55 dB. A sharp threshold and rapid collapse of the linewidth above threshold are observed. The linewidths of the acoustic oscillations are on the order of 100 Hz, orders of magnitude narrower than those of the pump and probe light sources. The relative Allan's deviation of the frequency is between 0.1-1 ppm. The frequency may be switched among several values by propagating the pump or probe waves in different cores. The results may be used in sensing, metrology and microwave-photonic information processing applications.
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- H Hagai Diamandi
- Faculty of Engineering and Institute for Nano-Technology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002, Israel
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- Faculty of Engineering and Institute for Nano-Technology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002, Israel
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- Faculty of Engineering and Institute for Nano-Technology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002, Israel
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- Faculty of Engineering and Institute for Nano-Technology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002, Israel
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- Faculty of Engineering and Institute for Nano-Technology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002, Israel.
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