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Brillouin-scattering-induced transparency and non-reciprocal light storage
Stimulated Brillouin scattering is a fundamental interaction between light and travelling acoustic waves and arises primarily from electrostriction and photoelastic effects, with an interaction strength several orders of magnitude greater than that of other relevant non-linear optical processes. Her...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327558/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25648234 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7193 |
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author | Dong, Chun-Hua Shen, Zhen Zou, Chang-Ling Zhang, Yan-Lei Fu, Wei Guo, Guang-Can |
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description | Stimulated Brillouin scattering is a fundamental interaction between light and travelling acoustic waves and arises primarily from electrostriction and photoelastic effects, with an interaction strength several orders of magnitude greater than that of other relevant non-linear optical processes. Here we report an experimental demonstration of Brillouin-scattering-induced transparency in a high-quality whispering-gallery-mode optical microresonantor. The triply resonant Stimulated Brillouin scattering process underlying the Brillouin-scattering-induced transparency greatly enhances the light–acoustic interaction, enabling the storage of light as a coherent, circulating acoustic wave with a lifetime up to 10 μs. Furthermore, because of the phase-matching requirement, a circulating acoustic wave can only couple to light with a given propagation direction, leading to non-reciprocal light storage and retrieval. These unique features establish a new avenue towards integrated all-optical switching with low-power consumption, optical isolators and circulators. |
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spelling | pubmed-43275582015-02-24 Brillouin-scattering-induced transparency and non-reciprocal light storage Dong, Chun-Hua Shen, Zhen Zou, Chang-Ling Zhang, Yan-Lei Fu, Wei Guo, Guang-Can Nat Commun Article Stimulated Brillouin scattering is a fundamental interaction between light and travelling acoustic waves and arises primarily from electrostriction and photoelastic effects, with an interaction strength several orders of magnitude greater than that of other relevant non-linear optical processes. Here we report an experimental demonstration of Brillouin-scattering-induced transparency in a high-quality whispering-gallery-mode optical microresonantor. The triply resonant Stimulated Brillouin scattering process underlying the Brillouin-scattering-induced transparency greatly enhances the light–acoustic interaction, enabling the storage of light as a coherent, circulating acoustic wave with a lifetime up to 10 μs. Furthermore, because of the phase-matching requirement, a circulating acoustic wave can only couple to light with a given propagation direction, leading to non-reciprocal light storage and retrieval. These unique features establish a new avenue towards integrated all-optical switching with low-power consumption, optical isolators and circulators. Nature Pub. Group 2015-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4327558/ /pubmed/25648234 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7193 Text en Copyright © 2015, Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Dong, Chun-Hua Shen, Zhen Zou, Chang-Ling Zhang, Yan-Lei Fu, Wei Guo, Guang-Can Brillouin-scattering-induced transparency and non-reciprocal light storage |
title | Brillouin-scattering-induced transparency and non-reciprocal light storage |
title_full | Brillouin-scattering-induced transparency and non-reciprocal light storage |
title_fullStr | Brillouin-scattering-induced transparency and non-reciprocal light storage |
title_full_unstemmed | Brillouin-scattering-induced transparency and non-reciprocal light storage |
title_short | Brillouin-scattering-induced transparency and non-reciprocal light storage |
title_sort | brillouin-scattering-induced transparency and non-reciprocal light storage |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327558/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25648234 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7193 |
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