Giant Brillouin gain in frozen CS2 capillaries
arXiv:2603.25472 · doi:10.1364/OPTICA.600056
Abstract
Stimulated Brillouin-Mandelstam scattering offers exceptional capabilities for photonic signal processing, but current platforms demand performance trade-offs between long interaction lengths, high gain, low optical losses, and practical implementation. Here, we demonstrate a novel platform based on the reversible freezing of a carbon disulfide filled liquid-core optical fiber. This approach delivers a giant in-fiber Brillouin gain of 434 W-1m-1 with a linewidth of 24 MHz, while maintaining low propagation losses in a fully spliced architecture and providing the potential for meter-scale interaction lengths. Leveraging this gain, as a proof of principle, we realize an optoacoustic memory operating at sub-nanojoule pulse energies - more than two orders of magnitude lower than state-of-the-art implementations. This power reduction is universal for Brillouin-based fiber applications in general and will enable low-power photonic signal processing and neuromorphic computing, efficient microwave photonics and sensing, as well as in-fiber quantum optomechanics-based technologies.
arXiv commentSimon Seiderer, Andreas Geilen and Luan N. Sliwa contributed equally to this work. 16 pages, 10 figures
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