Stimulated Brillouin scattering from multi-GHz-guided acoustic phonons in nanostructured photonic crystal fibres

Nature Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 388-392

  Dainese, P ^a,b   Russell, P St J ^a,c   Joly, N ^a,c   Knight, J C ^a   Wiederhecker, G S ^b   Fragnito, H L ^b   Laude, V ^d   Khelif, A ^d  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d FEMTO ST INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

ACOUSTIC PHONONS; NANO-STRUCTURED;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 33744790612     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys315     Document Type: Article

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