Frontiers in Physics (May 2022)

A Theoretical Study of Tunable Brillouin Lasers Based on a Diamond Suspended Waveguide

  • Wuyue Wang,
  • Wuyue Wang,
  • Yu Yu,
  • Yu Yu,
  • Yu Yu,
  • Zhenxu Bai,
  • Zhenxu Bai,
  • Yunfei Li,
  • Yunfei Li,
  • Gong Wang,
  • Gong Wang,
  • Kai Li,
  • Kai Li,
  • Changyu Song,
  • Changyu Song,
  • Zhiyong Wang,
  • Zhiyong Wang,
  • Sensen Li,
  • Yuhai Li,
  • Tongyu Liu,
  • Xiusheng Yan,
  • Yulei Wang,
  • Yulei Wang,
  • Zhiwei Lu,
  • Zhiwei Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2022.913774
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10

Abstract

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In this work we detail the design of a novel, hybrid waveguide structure which enables independent control of phonon modes and optomechanical driving forces, thereby yielding customizable Brillouin coupling over a very broad bandwidth. The Brillouin gain reaches 4400 W−1m−1, with tunable phonon frequencies from 1–95 GHz. This hybrid waveguide relies on tuning of its width and enables photon-phonon conversion based on the Brillouin nonlinear effect, and importantly, it can guide and manipulate the phonons emitted by the Brillouin effect on a chip-level device. There is hence excellent potential for this technique to be applied in microwave sources using the on-chip Brillouin photoacoustic coupling mechanism.

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