Optical tracking of picosecond coherent phonon pulse focusing inside a sub-micron object

Thomas Dehoux; Kenichi Ishikawa; Paul H Otsuka; Motonobu Tomoda; Osamu Matsuda; Masazumi Fujiwara; Shigeki Takeuchi; Istvan A Veres; Vitalyi E Gusev; Oliver B Wright

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.82

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Optical tracking of picosecond coherent phonon pulse focusing inside a sub-micron object

Original Articles

- Optical tracking of picosecond coherent phonon pulse focusing inside a sub-micron object
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 5, Issue 3, (2016)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306, Université Lyon 1-CNRS, Université de Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
  2.Division of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan
  3.Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan
  4.School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Hyogo 669-1337, Japan
  5.Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
  6.Research Centre for Non-Destructive Testing GmbH, Altenberger Strasse 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria
  7.Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université, du Maine, Le Mans 72085, France
- Author bio：
  
  OB Wright, Email: olly@eng.hokudai.ac.jp
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.82
  CLC：
- Published：2016-09，
  
  Published Online：22 February 2016，
  
  Received：29 September 2015，
  
  Revised：18 January 2016，
  
  Accepted：22 January 2016
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Dehoux, T. et al. Optical tracking of picosecond coherent phonon pulse focusing inside a sub-micron object. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16082 (2016).
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Dehoux, T. et al. Optical tracking of picosecond coherent phonon pulse focusing inside a sub-micron object. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16082 (2016). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.82.

摘要

Abstract

By means of an ultrafast optical technique

we track focused gigahertz coherent phonon pulses in objects down to sub-micron in size. Infrared light pulses illuminating the surface of a single metal-coated silica fibre generate longitudinal-phonon wave packets. Reflection of visible probe light pulses from the fibre surface allows the vibrational modes of the fibre to be detected

and Brillouin optical scattering of partially transmitted light pulses allows the acoustic wavefronts inside the transparent fibre to be continuously monitored. We thereby probe acoustic focusing in the time domain resulting from generation at the curved fibre surface. An analytical model

supported by three-dimensional simulations

suggests that we have followed the focusing of the acoustic beam down to a ~150-nm diameter waist inside the fibre. This work significantly narrows the lateral resolution for focusing of picosecond acoustic pulses

normally limited by the diffraction limit of focused optical pulses to ~1 μm

and thereby opens up a new range of possibilities including nanoscale acoustic microscopy and nanoscale computed tomography.

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Keywords

acoustic–opticfibreoptical scatteringpicosecondultrasonics

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