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 …

Brillouin scattering—theory and experiment: tutorial

C Wolff, MJA Smith, B Stiller, CG Poulton - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Brillouin scattering is an important and interesting nonlinear effect involving the interaction
between optical and acoustic fields in optical waveguides. It is increasingly useful in the field …

Brillouin light scattering from surface acoustic waves in a subwavelength-diameter optical fibre

JC Beugnot, S Lebrun, G Pauliat, H Maillotte… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Brillouin scattering in optical fibres is a fundamental interaction between light and sound
with important implications ranging from optical sensors to slow and fast light. In usual …

Limits and prospects for long-baseline optical fiber interferometry

C Hilweg, D Shadmany, P Walther, N Mavalvala… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Today's most precise optical instruments--gravitational-wave interferometers and optical
atomic clocks--rely on long storage times for photons to realize their exquisite sensitivity …

Ultra-narrow linewidth dual-cavity opto-mechanical microwave oscillator based on radial guided acoustic modes of single-mode fiber

Y Liu, Y Ning, Y Gu, P Chen, K Jiang, L Wang… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A dual-cavity opto-mechanical microwave oscillator (OM-MO) for microwave photonic (MWP)
generation with ultra-narrow linewidth based on radial (R) guided acoustic modes of a …

Cascaded forward Brillouin scattering to all Stokes orders

C Wolff, B Stiller, BJ Eggleton, MJ Steel… - New Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Inelastic scattering processes such as Brillouin scattering can often function in cascaded
regimes and this is likely to occur in certain integrated opto-acoustic devices. We develop a …

Brillouin interaction between two optical modes selectively excited in weakly guiding multimode optical fibers

A Fotiadi, E Rafailov, D Korobko, P Mégret, A Bykov… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
A multimode optical fiber supports excitation and propagation of a pure single optical mode,
ie, the field pattern that satisfies the boundary conditions and does not change along the …

Reduction and control of stimulated Brillouin scattering in polymer-coated chalcogenide optical microwires

JC Beugnot, R Ahmad, M Rochette, V Laude… - Optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We investigate the onset of nonlinear effects in hybrid polymer-chalcogenide optical
microwires and show that they provide an enhanced Kerr nonlinearity while simultaneously …

Narrow linewidth all-optical optomechanically microwave oscillator based on forward stimulated Brillouin scattering

Y Liu, Y Ning, P Chen, Y Gu, Y You… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An narrow linewidth all-optical optomechanically microwave oscillator (OM-MO) based on
forward stimulated Brillouin scattering (FSBS) for microwave photonics (MWPs) generation …

Analysis of acousto-optic interaction based on forward stimulated Brillouin scattering in hybrid phononic-photonic waveguides

R Zhang, G Chen, J Sun - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We present the generation of forward stimulated Brillouin scattering (FSBS) in hybrid
phononic-photonic waveguides. To confine the optical and acoustic waves simultaneously …