Aluminum nitride photonic integrated circuits: from piezo-optomechanics to nonlinear optics

X Liu, AW Bruch, HX Tang - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

Inducing and harnessing stimulated Brillouin scattering in photonic integrated circuits

BJ Eggleton, CG Poulton, R Pant - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We review recent progress in inducing and harnessing stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS)
in integrated photonic circuits. Exciting SBS in a chip-scale device is challenging due to the …

[HTML][HTML] Tailorable stimulated Brillouin scattering in nanoscale silicon waveguides

H Shin, W Qiu, R Jarecki, JA Cox, RH Olsson… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Nanoscale modal confinement is known to radically enhance the effect of intrinsic Kerr and
Raman nonlinearities within nanophotonic silicon waveguides. By contrast, stimulated …

On-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering

R Pant, CG Poulton, DY Choi, H Mcfarlane, S Hile… - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate on-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in an As_2S_3 chalcogenide
rib waveguide. SBS was characterized in a 7cm long waveguide with a cross-section 4μm x …

Applications of cavity optomechanics

M Metcalfe - Applied Physics Reviews, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
“Cavity-optomechanics” aims to study the quantum properties of mechanical systems. A
common strategy implemented in order to achieve this goal couples a high finesse photonic …

Giant enhancement of stimulated Brillouin scattering in the subwavelength limit

PT Rakich, C Reinke, R Camacho, P Davids, Z Wang - Physical Review X, 2012 - APS
Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is traditionally viewed as a process whose strength is
dictated by intrinsic material nonlinearities with little dependence on waveguide geometry …

Nanometer-precision linear sorting with synchronized optofluidic dual barriers

Y Shi, S Xiong, LK Chin, J Zhang, W Ser, J Wu… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
The past two decades have witnessed the revolutionary development of optical trapping of
nanoparticles, most of which deal with trapping stiffness larger than 10− 8 N/m. In this …

Stimulated Brillouin scattering in integrated photonic waveguides: Forces, scattering mechanisms, and coupled-mode analysis

C Wolff, MJ Steel, BJ Eggleton, CG Poulton - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
Recent theoretical studies of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in nanoscale devices have
led to intense research effort dedicated to the demonstration and application of this …

Non-invasive on-chip light observation by contactless waveguide conductivity monitoring

F Morichetti, S Grillanda, M Carminati… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic technologies lack non-invasive monitoring tools to inspect the light inside optical
waveguides. This is one of the main barriers to large scale integration, even though photonic …

Enabling scalable optical computing in synthetic frequency dimension using integrated cavity acousto-optics

H Zhao, B Li, H Li, M Li - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Optical computing with integrated photonics brings a pivotal paradigm shift to data-intensive
computing technologies. However, the scaling of on-chip photonic architectures using …