Forward stimulated Brillouin scattering and opto-mechanical non-reciprocity in standard polarization maintaining fibres

Gil Bashan; Hilel Hagai Diamandi; Yosef London; Kavita Sharma; Keren Shemer; Elad Zehavi; Avi Zadok

doi:10.1038/s41377-021-00557-y

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Forward stimulated Brillouin scattering and opto-mechanical non-reciprocity in standard polarization maintaining fibres

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- Forward stimulated Brillouin scattering and opto-mechanical non-reciprocity in standard polarization maintaining fibres
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 10, Issue 7, Pages: 1275-1288(2021)
- Affiliations：
  
  Faculty of Engineering and Institute for Nano-Technology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002, Israel
- Author bio：
  
  Avi Zadok (Avinoam.Zadok@biu.ac.il)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-021-00557-y
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- Published：31 July 2021，
  
  Published Online：07 June 2021，
  
  Received：12 February 2021，
  
  Revised：30 April 2021，
  
  Accepted：19 May 2021
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Bashan, G. et al. Forward stimulated Brillouin scattering and optomechanical non-reciprocity in standard polarization maintaining fibres. Light: Science & Applications, 10, 1275-1288 (2021).
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Bashan, G. et al. Forward stimulated Brillouin scattering and optomechanical non-reciprocity in standard polarization maintaining fibres. Light: Science & Applications, 10, 1275-1288 (2021). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-021-00557-y.

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Abstract

Opto-mechanical interactions in guided wave media are drawing great interest in fundamental research and applications. Forward stimulated Brillouin scattering

in particular

is widely investigated in optical fibres and photonic integrated circuits. In this work

we report a comprehensive study of forward stimulated Brillouin scattering over standard

panda-type polarization maintaining fibres. We distinguish between intra-polarization scattering

in which two pump tones are co-polarized along one principal axis

and inter-polarization processes driven by orthogonally polarized pump waves. Both processes are quantified in analysis

calculations and experiment. Inter-modal scattering

in particular

introduces cross-polarization switching of probe waves that is non-reciprocal. Switching takes place in multiple wavelength windows. The results provide a first demonstration of opto-mechanical non-reciprocity of forward scatter in standard fibre. The inter-polarization process is applicable to distributed sensors of media outside the cladding and coating boundaries

where light cannot reach. The process may be scaled towards forward Brillouin lasers

optical isolators and circulators and narrowband microwave-photonic filters over longer sections of off-the-shelf polarization maintaining fibres.

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