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Room-temperature Mechanical Resonator with a Single Added or Subtracted Phonon
Rishi N. Patel, Timothy P. McKenna, Zhaoyou Wang +5
A room-temperature mechanical oscillator undergoes thermal Brownian motion with an amplitude much larger than the amplitude associated with a single phonon of excitation. This moti…
Acousto-optic modulation of a wavelength-scale waveguide
Christopher J. Sarabalis, Raphaël Van Laer, Rishi N. Patel +4
We demonstrate a collinear acousto-optic modulator in a suspended film of lithium niobate employing a high-confinement, wavelength-scale waveguide. By strongly confining the optica…
Acousto-optic modulation in lithium niobate on sapphire
Christopher J. Sarabalis, Timothy P. McKenna, Rishi N. Patel +2
We demonstrate acousto-optic phase modulators in X-cut lithium niobate films on sapphire, detailing the dependence of the piezoelectric and optomechanical coupling coefficients on…
Efficient bidirectional piezo-optomechanical transduction between microwave and optical frequency
Wentao Jiang, Christopher J. Sarabalis, Yanni D. Dahmani +5
Efficient interconversion of both classical and quantum information between microwave and optical frequency is an important engineering challenge. The optomechanical approach with…
Lithium Niobate Piezo-optomechanical Crystals
Wentao Jiang, Rishi N. Patel, Felix M. Mayor +6
Demonstrating a device that efficiently connects light, motion, and microwaves is an outstanding challenge in classical and quantum photonics. We make significant progress in this…
Controlling phonons and photons at the wavelength-scale: silicon photonics meets silicon phononics
Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Dries Van Thourhout, Roel Baets +1
Radio-frequency communication systems have long used bulk- and surface-acoustic-wave devices supporting ultrasonic mechanical waves to manipulate and sense signals. These devices h…
Electrical driving of X-band mechanical waves in a silicon photonic circuit
Raphaël Van Laer, Rishi N. Patel, Timothy P. McKenna +2
Reducing energy dissipation is a central goal of classical and quantum technologies. Optics achieved great success in bringing down power consumption of long-distance communication…