Tailorable stimulated Brillouin scattering in a partially suspended aluminium nitride waveguide in the visible range
Tailorable stimulated Brillouin scattering in a partially suspended aluminium nitride waveguide in the visible range
Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) has been widely applied in narrow line-width laser, microwave filters, optical gyroscopes, and other fields. However, most research is limited within near-infrared to mid-infrared range. This is due to the limited transparent window in most materials, such as silicon and germanium. Aluminium nitride (AlN) is a novel III-V material with a wide transparent window from 200 nm and an appropriate refractive index to confine the light. In this paper, we first validate the full-vectorial formalism to calculate SBS gain based on the measured results from a silicon platform. Compared to previous research, our model achieves higher accuracy in terms of frequency, Q factor, as well as Brillouin gain coefficient without modifying the waveguide width. It also reveals the importance of matching rotation matrix and crystalline coordinate system. Then, we investigate the SBS in a partially suspended AlN waveguide at 450 nm based on the validated method. It shows a wide tunability in frequency from 16 GHz to 32 GHz for forward SBS and a range from 42 GHz to 49 GHz for backward SBS. We numerically obtain the value of Brillouin gain of 1311 W-1m-1 when Q factor is dominated by anchor loss for forward SBS of transverse electric mode. We also find out that in the case for forward SBS of transverse-magnetic mode, anchor loss could be greatly suppressed when the node point of the selected acoustic mode matches with the position of pillar anchor. Our findings, to the best of our knowledge, pave a new way to obtain Brillouin-related applications in integrated photonic circuit within the visible range.
Brillouin scattering, Perfectly matched layer, aluminium nitride
27092-27108
Li, Peng
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Yan, Jize
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Ou, Jun-Yu
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Mashanovich, Goran
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18 July 2022
Li, Peng
02f3a864-8335-4976-b9ff-d40f7fcb3f63
Yan, Jize
786dc090-843b-435d-adbe-1d35e8fc5828
Ou, Jun-Yu
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Mashanovich, Goran
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Li, Peng, Yan, Jize, Ou, Jun-Yu and Mashanovich, Goran
(2022)
Tailorable stimulated Brillouin scattering in a partially suspended aluminium nitride waveguide in the visible range.
Optics Express, 30 (15), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.462356).
Abstract
Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) has been widely applied in narrow line-width laser, microwave filters, optical gyroscopes, and other fields. However, most research is limited within near-infrared to mid-infrared range. This is due to the limited transparent window in most materials, such as silicon and germanium. Aluminium nitride (AlN) is a novel III-V material with a wide transparent window from 200 nm and an appropriate refractive index to confine the light. In this paper, we first validate the full-vectorial formalism to calculate SBS gain based on the measured results from a silicon platform. Compared to previous research, our model achieves higher accuracy in terms of frequency, Q factor, as well as Brillouin gain coefficient without modifying the waveguide width. It also reveals the importance of matching rotation matrix and crystalline coordinate system. Then, we investigate the SBS in a partially suspended AlN waveguide at 450 nm based on the validated method. It shows a wide tunability in frequency from 16 GHz to 32 GHz for forward SBS and a range from 42 GHz to 49 GHz for backward SBS. We numerically obtain the value of Brillouin gain of 1311 W-1m-1 when Q factor is dominated by anchor loss for forward SBS of transverse electric mode. We also find out that in the case for forward SBS of transverse-magnetic mode, anchor loss could be greatly suppressed when the node point of the selected acoustic mode matches with the position of pillar anchor. Our findings, to the best of our knowledge, pave a new way to obtain Brillouin-related applications in integrated photonic circuit within the visible range.
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Accepted/In Press date: 25 May 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 31 May 2022
Published date: 18 July 2022
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Brillouin scattering, Perfectly matched layer, aluminium nitride
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/457721
ISSN: 1094-4087
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