Photonic chip based tunable slow and fast light via stimulated Brillouin scattering

Ravi Pant; Adam Byrnes; Christopher G. Poulton; Enbang Li; Duk Yong Choi; Steve Madden; Barry Luther-Davies; Benjamin J. Eggleton

doi:10.1117/12.923100

Photonic chip based tunable slow and fast light via stimulated Brillouin scattering

Ravi Pant^*, Adam Byrnes, Christopher G. Poulton, Enbang Li, Duk Yong Choi, Steve Madden, Barry Luther-Davies, Benjamin J. Eggleton

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The ability to control the speed of light on an optical chip is fundamental to the development of nanophotonic components for alloptical signal processing and sensing [1-7]. However this is a significant challenge, because chip-scale waveguides require very large changes in group index (Δn _g) to achieve appreciable pulse delays. Here, we use Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) to report the demonstration of on-chip slow, fast and negative group velocities with Δn _g ranging from -44 to +130, and delays of up to 23ns at a pump power of ∼300mW and propagation length of 7cm. These results are obtained using a highly-nonlinear chalocogenide (As ₂S ₃) rib waveguide, in which the confinement of both photons and phonons results in strong interaction. SBS can be used to achieve controllable pulse delays at room temperature over a large wavelength and signal-bandwidth [5]. These results open up a new set of photonic applications ranging from microwave photonics [8] to spectrometry [4].

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Nonlinear Optics and Applications VI
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.923100
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	Nonlinear Optics and Applications VI - Brussels, Belgium Duration: 16 Apr 2012 → 18 Apr 2012

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	8434
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Conference	Nonlinear Optics and Applications VI
Country/Territory	Belgium
City	Brussels
Period	16/04/12 → 18/04/12

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Pant, R., Byrnes, A., Poulton, C. G., Li, E., Choi, D. Y., Madden, S., Luther-Davies, B., & Eggleton, B. J. (2012). Photonic chip based tunable slow and fast light via stimulated Brillouin scattering. In Nonlinear Optics and Applications VI Article 84340O (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8434). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.923100

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Pant, R, Byrnes, A, Poulton, CG, Li, E, Choi, DY , Madden, S, Luther-Davies, B & Eggleton, BJ 2012, Photonic chip based tunable slow and fast light via stimulated Brillouin scattering. in Nonlinear Optics and Applications VI., 84340O, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 8434, Nonlinear Optics and Applications VI, Brussels, Belgium, 16/04/12. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.923100

Photonic chip based tunable slow and fast light via stimulated Brillouin scattering. / Pant, Ravi; Byrnes, Adam; Poulton, Christopher G. et al.
Nonlinear Optics and Applications VI. 2012. 84340O (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8434).

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