Brillouin-based storage of QPSK signals with fully tunable phase retrieval

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Hauptverfasser: Saffer, Olivia, Cabello, Jesús Humberto Marines, Becker, Steven, Geilen, Andreas, Stiller, Birgit
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author Saffer, Olivia
Cabello, Jesús Humberto Marines
Becker, Steven
Geilen, Andreas
Stiller, Birgit
author_facet Saffer, Olivia
Cabello, Jesús Humberto Marines
Becker, Steven
Geilen, Andreas
Stiller, Birgit
contents Photonic memory is an important building block to delay, route and buffer optical information, for instance in optical interconnects or for recurrent optical signal processing. Photonic-phononic memory based on stimulated Brillouin-Mandelstam scattering (SBS) has been demonstrated as a coherent optical storage approach with broad bandwidth, frequency selectivity and intrinsic nonreciprocity. Here, we experimentally demonstrated the storage of quadrature-phase encoded data at room temperature and at cryogenic temperatures. We store and retrieve the 2-bit states $\{00, 01, 10, 11\}$ encoded as optical pulses with the phases $\{0, π/2 , π, 3π/2\}$ - a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) signal. The 2-bit signals are retrieved from the acoustic domain with a global phase rotation of $π$, which is inherent in the process due to SBS. We also demonstrate full phase control over the retrieved data based on two different handles: by detuning slightly from the SBS resonance, or by changing the storage time in the memory scheme we can cover the full range $[0, 2π)$. At a cryogenic temperature of 3.9 K, we have increased readout efficiency as well as gained access to longer storage times, which results in a detectable signal at 140 ns. All in all, the work sets the cornerstone for optoacoustic memory schemes with phase-encoded data
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Saffer, Olivia
Cabello, Jesús Humberto Marines
Becker, Steven
Geilen, Andreas
Stiller, Birgit
Optics
Applied Physics
Photonic memory is an important building block to delay, route and buffer optical information, for instance in optical interconnects or for recurrent optical signal processing. Photonic-phononic memory based on stimulated Brillouin-Mandelstam scattering (SBS) has been demonstrated as a coherent optical storage approach with broad bandwidth, frequency selectivity and intrinsic nonreciprocity. Here, we experimentally demonstrated the storage of quadrature-phase encoded data at room temperature and at cryogenic temperatures. We store and retrieve the 2-bit states $\{00, 01, 10, 11\}$ encoded as optical pulses with the phases $\{0, π/2 , π, 3π/2\}$ - a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) signal. The 2-bit signals are retrieved from the acoustic domain with a global phase rotation of $π$, which is inherent in the process due to SBS. We also demonstrate full phase control over the retrieved data based on two different handles: by detuning slightly from the SBS resonance, or by changing the storage time in the memory scheme we can cover the full range $[0, 2π)$. At a cryogenic temperature of 3.9 K, we have increased readout efficiency as well as gained access to longer storage times, which results in a detectable signal at 140 ns. All in all, the work sets the cornerstone for optoacoustic memory schemes with phase-encoded data
title Brillouin-based storage of QPSK signals with fully tunable phase retrieval
topic Optics
Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05156