Experimental observation of surface acoustic wave Brillouin scattering in a small-core photonic crystal fiber

Joël Cabrel Tchahame; Thibaut Sylvestre; Kien Phan Huy; Alexandre Kudlinski; Vincent Laude; Jean-Charles Beugnot

doi:10.1117/12.2227653

27 April 2016 Experimental observation of surface acoustic wave Brillouin scattering in a small-core photonic crystal fiber

Joël Cabrel Tchahame, Thibaut Sylvestre, Kien Phan Huy, Alexandre Kudlinski, Vincent Laude, Jean-Charles Beugnot

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Proceedings Volume 9894, Nonlinear Optics and its Applications IV; 98941J (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227653
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2016, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

Light propagation in small-core photonic crystal fibers enables tight optical confinement over long propagation lengths to enhance light-matter interactions. Not only can photonic crystal fibers compress light spatially, they also provide a tunable means to control light-hypersound interactions. By exploring Brillouin light scattering in a small-core and high air-filling fraction microstructured fiber, we report the observation of Brillouin scattering from surface acoustic waves at lower frequencies than standard Brillouin scattering from bulk acoustic waves. This effect could find potential applications for optical sensing technologies that exploit surface acoustic waves.

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Joël Cabrel Tchahame, Thibaut Sylvestre, Kien Phan Huy, Alexandre Kudlinski, Vincent Laude, and Jean-Charles Beugnot "Experimental observation of surface acoustic wave Brillouin scattering in a small-core photonic crystal fiber", Proc. SPIE 9894, Nonlinear Optics and its Applications IV, 98941J (27 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227653

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