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Noise factor of Brillouin amplifiers
John H. Dallyn, Nils T. Otterstrom, Matt Eichenfield +2
Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS), an optical nonlinearity arising from photon-phonon interactions, has formed the basis for a large class of optical signal processing devices,…
Noise and dynamics in acoustoelectric waveguides
Ryan O. Behunin, Andrew Shepherd, Ruoyu Yuan +5
We present a quantum field theoretic formulation of acoustoelectric interactions in waveguide-like systems of arbitrary cross-section. Building on an open quantum systems approach,…
A Terahertz Bandwidth Nonmagnetic Isolator
Haotian Cheng, Yishu Zhou, Freek Ruesink +15
Integrated photonics could bring transformative breakthroughs in computing, networking, imaging, sensing, and quantum information processing, enabled by increasingly sophisticated…
Electrically interfaced Brillouin-active waveguide for multi-domain transduction
Yishu Zhou, Freek Ruesink, Margaret Pavlovich +14
New strategies to convert signals between optical and microwave domains could play a pivotal role in advancing both classical and quantum technologies. Through recent studies, elec…
Laser cooling of traveling wave phonons in an optical fiber
Joel N. Johnson, Danielle R. Haverkamp, Yi-Hsin Ou +4
In recent years, optical control of mechanical oscillators has emerged as a critical tool for everything from information processing to laser cooling. While traditional forms of op…
Intermodal strong coupling and wideband, low-loss isolation in silicon
Yishu Zhou, Freek Ruesink, Shai Gertler +18
Strong coupling enables a diverse set of applications that include optical memories, non-magnetic isolators, photonic state manipulation, and signal processing. To date, strong cou…
Electrically-driven Acousto-optics and Broadband Non-reciprocity in Silicon Photonics
Eric A. Kittlaus, William M. Jones, Peter T. Rakich +3
Emerging technologies based on tailorable interactions between photons and phonons promise new capabilities ranging from high-fidelity microwave signal processing to non-reciprocal…
Tunable RF-photonic filtering with high out-of-band rejection in silicon
Shai Gertler, Eric A. Kittlaus, Nils T. Otterstrom +1
The ever-increasing demand for high speed and large bandwidth has made photonic systems a leading candidate for the next generation of telecommunication and radar technologies. The…
Back-scatter immune injection-locked Brillouin laser in silicon
Nils T. Otterstrom, Shai Gertler, Yishu Zhou +9
As self-sustained oscillators, lasers possess the unusual ability to spontaneously synchronize. These nonlinear dynamics are the basis for a simple yet powerful stabilization techn…
Shaping nonlinear optical response using nonlocal forward Brillouin interactions
Shai Gertler, Prashanta Kharel, Eric A. Kittlaus +2
We grow accustomed to the notion that optical susceptibilities can be treated as a local property of a medium. In the context of nonlinear optics, both Kerr and Raman processes are…
Microwave filtering using forward Brillouin scattering in photonic-phononic emit-receive devices
Shai Gertler, Eric A. Kittlaus, Nils T. Otterstrom +2
Microwave photonic systems are compelling for their ability to process signals at high frequencies and over extremely wide bandwidths as a basis for next generation communication a…
Resonantly enhanced nonreciprocal silicon Brillouin amplifier
Nils T. Otterstrom, Eric A. Kittlaus, Shai Gertler +3
The ability to amplify light within silicon waveguides is central to the development of high-performance silicon photonic device technologies. To this end, the large optical nonlin…
Multimode strong coupling in cavity optomechanics
Prashanta Kharel, Yiwen Chu, Eric A. Kittlaus +3
Optomechanical systems show great potential as quantum transducers and information storage devices for use in future hybrid quantum networks and offer novel strategies for quantum…
High-frequency cavity optomechanics using bulk acoustic phonons
Prashanta Kharel, Glen I. Harris, Eric A. Kittlaus +4
To date, micro- and nano-scale optomechanical systems have enabled many proof-of-principle quantum operations through access to high-frequency (GHz) phonon modes that are readily c…
Nonreciprocal Inter-band Brillouin Modulation
Eric A. Kittlaus, Nils T. Otterstrom, Prashanta Kharel +2
Achieving nonreciprocal light propagation in photonic circuits is essential to control signal crosstalk and optical back-scatter. However, realizing high-fidelity nonreciprocity in…
Optomechanical cooling in a continuous system
Nils T. Otterstrom, Ryan O. Behunin, Eric A. Kittlaus +1
Radiation-pressure-induced optomechanical coupling permits exquisite control of micro- and mesoscopic mechanical oscillators. This ability to manipulate and even damp mechanical mo…
Fundamental noise dynamics in cascaded-order Brillouin lasers
Ryan Behunin, Nils T. Otterstrom, Peter T. Rakich +2
The dynamics of cascaded-order Brillouin lasers make them ideal for applications such as rotation sensing, highly coherent optical communications, and low-noise microwave signal sy…
Integrated RF-photonic Filters via Photonic-Phononic Emit-Receive Operations
Eric A. Kittlaus, Prashanta Kharel, Nils T. Otterstrom +2
The creation of high-performance narrowband filters is of great interest for many RF-signal processing applications. To this end, numerous schemes for electronic, MEMS-based, and m…
A silicon Brillouin laser
Nils T. Otterstrom, Ryan O. Behunin, Eric A. Kittlaus +2
Brillouin laser oscillators offer powerful and flexible dynamics as the basis for mode-locked lasers, microwave oscillators, and optical gyroscopes in a variety of optical systems.…
On-chip Inter-modal Brillouin Scattering
Eric A. Kittlaus, Nils T. Otterstrom, Peter T. Rakich
Stimulated Brillouin interactions mediate nonlinear coupling between photons and acoustic phonons through an optomechanical three-wave interaction. Though these nonlinearities were…