Accession Number:

ADA566573

Title:

Tunable Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Planar Optical Circuits

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

SYDNEY UNIV (AUSTRALIA) SCHOOL OF PHYSICS

Personal Author(s):

• Pant, Ravi
• Eggleton, Benjamin J.

Report Date:

2012-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

Stimulated Brillouin Scattering SBS, whereby light interacts coherently with acoustic phonons is a powerful and flexible mechanism for the control of optical pulses, having recently been used to achieve tunable slow-light as well as find application in a range of important technologies such as Brillouin lasers, sensors, opto-mechanical oscillator and tailoring optical forces. Conversely SBS is undesirable in many applications, one example of which is nonlinear optics, where it leads to output power saturation and must be suppressed. The ability to control i.e. enhance or suppress SBS in integrated optical chips is therefore key to the realization of many applications in modern photonics that involve light-sound and light-light interactions.

Descriptors:

• *BRILLOUIN ZONES
• *OPTICAL CIRCUITS
• *PHOTONICS
• CHIPS(ELECTRONICS)
• LASERS
• LIGHT SCATTERING
• MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
• NONLINEAR OPTICS
• OPTICAL PROPERTIES
• OSCILLATORS
• PHONONS
• SATURATION
• SKILLS
• TUNING

Subject Categories:

• Electrooptical and Optoelectronic Devices
• Crystallography
• Fiber Optics and Integrated Optics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE