Suspended Z-cut lithium niobate waveguides for stimulated Brillouin scattering

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Main Authors: Haerteis, Lisa-Sophie, Gao, Yan, Dubey, Aditya, Schmidt, Mikołaj K., Thurgood, Peter, Ren, Guanghui, Schroeder, Jochen, Marpaung, David, Mitchell, Arnan, Steel, Michael J., Boes, Andreas
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author Haerteis, Lisa-Sophie
Gao, Yan
Dubey, Aditya
Schmidt, Mikołaj K.
Thurgood, Peter
Ren, Guanghui
Schroeder, Jochen
Marpaung, David
Mitchell, Arnan
Steel, Michael J.
Boes, Andreas
author_facet Haerteis, Lisa-Sophie
Gao, Yan
Dubey, Aditya
Schmidt, Mikołaj K.
Thurgood, Peter
Ren, Guanghui
Schroeder, Jochen
Marpaung, David
Mitchell, Arnan
Steel, Michael J.
Boes, Andreas
contents On-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) has recently been demonstrated in thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN), an emerging material platform for integrated photonics offering large electro-optic and nonlinear properties. While previous work on SBS in TFLN have focused on surface SBS, in this contribution we experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, backward intra-modal SBS generation in suspended Z-cut TFLN waveguides. Our results show trapping of multiple acoustic modes in this structure, featuring a multi-peak Brillouin gain spectrum due to the excitation of higher-order acoustic modes. The findings expand the TFLN waveguide platform exploration for SBS interactions and provide a crucial step towards realizing optical processors for microwave signals or sensors integrated on TFLN.
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spellingShingle Suspended Z-cut lithium niobate waveguides for stimulated Brillouin scattering
Haerteis, Lisa-Sophie
Gao, Yan
Dubey, Aditya
Schmidt, Mikołaj K.
Thurgood, Peter
Ren, Guanghui
Schroeder, Jochen
Marpaung, David
Mitchell, Arnan
Steel, Michael J.
Boes, Andreas
Optics
Applied Physics
On-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) has recently been demonstrated in thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN), an emerging material platform for integrated photonics offering large electro-optic and nonlinear properties. While previous work on SBS in TFLN have focused on surface SBS, in this contribution we experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, backward intra-modal SBS generation in suspended Z-cut TFLN waveguides. Our results show trapping of multiple acoustic modes in this structure, featuring a multi-peak Brillouin gain spectrum due to the excitation of higher-order acoustic modes. The findings expand the TFLN waveguide platform exploration for SBS interactions and provide a crucial step towards realizing optical processors for microwave signals or sensors integrated on TFLN.
title Suspended Z-cut lithium niobate waveguides for stimulated Brillouin scattering
topic Optics
Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07333