Brillouin integrated photonics

BJ Eggleton, CG Poulton, PT Rakich, MJ Steel… - Nature Photonics, 2019 - nature.com
A recent renaissance in Brillouin scattering research has been driven by the increasing
maturity of photonic integration platforms and nanophotonics. The result is a new breed of …

Dynamics of non-Markovian open quantum systems

I De Vega, D Alonso - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
Open quantum systems (OQSs) cannot always be described with the Markov approximation,
which requires a large separation of system and environment time scales. An overview is …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated microwave photonic notch filter using a heterogeneously integrated Brillouin and active-silicon photonic circuit

M Garrett, Y Liu, M Merklein, CT Bui, CK Lai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Microwave photonics (MWP) has unlocked a new paradigm for Radio Frequency (RF) signal
processing by harnessing the inherent broadband and tunable nature of photonic …

Integrated microwave photonic filters

Y Liu, A Choudhary, D Marpaung… - Advances in Optics and …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Microwave signal filtering is a fundamental and central functionality in radio-frequency (RF)
systems. Underpinned by advanced integrated photonics technologies, emerging integrated …

Large Brillouin amplification in silicon

EA Kittlaus, H Shin, PT Rakich - Nature Photonics, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Both Kerr and Raman nonlinearities are radically enhanced by tight optical-mode
confinement in nanoscale silicon waveguides,,,. Counterintuitively, Brillouin nonlinearities …

Controlling phonons and photons at the wavelength scale: integrated photonics meets integrated phononics

AH Safavi-Naeini, D Van Thourhout, R Baets… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Radio-frequency communication systems have long used bulk-and surface-acoustic-wave
devices supporting ultrasonic mechanical waves to manipulate and sense signals. These …

[HTML][HTML] 100 years of Brillouin scattering: Historical and future perspectives

M Merklein, IV Kabakova, A Zarifi… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The Year 2022 marks 100 years since Leon Brillouin predicted and theoretically described
the interaction of optical waves with acoustic waves in a medium. Accordingly, this resonant …

Observation of phononic skyrmions based on hybrid spin of elastic waves

L Cao, S Wan, Y Zeng, Y Zhu, B Assouar - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Skyrmions with topologically stable configuration have shown a promising route toward high-
density magnetic and photonic information processing due to their defect-immune and low …

[HTML][HTML] Narrowband microwave-photonic notch filters using Brillouin-based signal transduction in silicon

S Gertler, NT Otterstrom, M Gehl, AL Starbuck… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The growing demand for bandwidth makes photonic systems a leading candidate for future
telecommunication and radar technologies. Integrated photonic systems offer ultra …

Optical transduction and routing of microwave phonons in cavity-optomechanical circuits

K Fang, MH Matheny, X Luan, O Painter - Nature Photonics, 2016 - nature.com
Going beyond the canonical cavity-optomechanical system consisting of a Fabry–Perot
cavity with a movable end mirror, here we explore a new paradigm in which phononic crystal …