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| Format: | Preprint |
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2025
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00287 |
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- Brillouin light scattering (BLS) is a powerful experimental tool that can be used to get insights into the fundamental and applied properties of matter, like dispersions of quasiparticles in a solid, as well as their spatio-temporal dynamics. Many applications of light scattering favor the use of optical fibers in place of free-space optics. In this work, we compare the performance of anti-resonant hollow core fibers to that of conventional solid core fused silica fibers for BLS experiments in the GHz frequency range. Conventional fibers are barely suitable for low-noise measurements because of the spontaneous scattering of the photons on various phononic modes present in the core and cladding. In the case of the hollow-core fiber, we identify a range of discrete phononic modes and associate them with the various acoustic modes of the structure surrounding the hollow core using finite-element numerical simulations. The measured relative intensity of the spontaneous BLS signal from these modes is orders of magnitude smaller than that of a solid-core fiber, making anti-resonant hollow-core fibers one of the best solutions for the single-mode light guidance for BLS and potentially other low-noise photonic experiments.