On-Chip Stimulated Brillouin Scattering via Surface Acoustic Waves
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| author | Neijts, Govert Lai, Choon Kong Riseng, Maren Kramer Choi, Duk-Yong Yan, Kunlun Marpaung, David Madden, Stephen J. Eggleton, Benjamin J. Merklein, Moritz |
| author_facet | Neijts, Govert Lai, Choon Kong Riseng, Maren Kramer Choi, Duk-Yong Yan, Kunlun Marpaung, David Madden, Stephen J. Eggleton, Benjamin J. Merklein, Moritz |
| contents | Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are ubiquitously used for signal processing and filtering, as well as mechanical, chemical and biological sensing, and show promise as quantum transducers. However, nowadays most SAWs are excited and driven via electromechanical coupling and interdigital transducers (IDTs), limiting operation bandwidth and flexibility. Novel ways to coherently excite and detect SAWs all-optically interfaced with photonic integrated circuits are yet elusive. Backward Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) provides strong coherent interactions between optical and acoustic waves in chip-scale waveguides, however, demonstrations have been limited to single longitudinal waves in the waveguide core. Here, we numerically model and experimentally demonstrate surface acoustic wave stimulated Brillouin scattering (SAW-SBS) on a photonic chip. We designed and fabricated tailored waveguides made out of GeAsSe glass that show good overlap between SAWs at 3.81 GHz and guided optical modes, without requiring a top cladding. We measure a 225 W$^{-1}$m$^{-1}$ Brillouin gain coefficient of the surface acoustic resonance and linewidth narrowing to 40 MHz. Experimentally accessing this new regime of stimulated Brillouin scattering opens the door for novel on-chip sensing and signal processing applications, strong Brillouin interactions in materials that do not provide sufficient acoustic guidance in the waveguide core as well as excitation of surface acoustic waves in non-piezoelectric materials. |
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| spellingShingle | On-Chip Stimulated Brillouin Scattering via Surface Acoustic Waves Neijts, Govert Lai, Choon Kong Riseng, Maren Kramer Choi, Duk-Yong Yan, Kunlun Marpaung, David Madden, Stephen J. Eggleton, Benjamin J. Merklein, Moritz Optics Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are ubiquitously used for signal processing and filtering, as well as mechanical, chemical and biological sensing, and show promise as quantum transducers. However, nowadays most SAWs are excited and driven via electromechanical coupling and interdigital transducers (IDTs), limiting operation bandwidth and flexibility. Novel ways to coherently excite and detect SAWs all-optically interfaced with photonic integrated circuits are yet elusive. Backward Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) provides strong coherent interactions between optical and acoustic waves in chip-scale waveguides, however, demonstrations have been limited to single longitudinal waves in the waveguide core. Here, we numerically model and experimentally demonstrate surface acoustic wave stimulated Brillouin scattering (SAW-SBS) on a photonic chip. We designed and fabricated tailored waveguides made out of GeAsSe glass that show good overlap between SAWs at 3.81 GHz and guided optical modes, without requiring a top cladding. We measure a 225 W$^{-1}$m$^{-1}$ Brillouin gain coefficient of the surface acoustic resonance and linewidth narrowing to 40 MHz. Experimentally accessing this new regime of stimulated Brillouin scattering opens the door for novel on-chip sensing and signal processing applications, strong Brillouin interactions in materials that do not provide sufficient acoustic guidance in the waveguide core as well as excitation of surface acoustic waves in non-piezoelectric materials. |
| title | On-Chip Stimulated Brillouin Scattering via Surface Acoustic Waves |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01707 |