Giant enhancement of stimulated Brillouin scattering in the subwavelength limit

Physical Review X

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Rakich, Peter T ^a   Reinke, Charles ^a   Camacho, Ryan ^a   Davids, Paul ^a   Wang, Zheng ^b,c  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanophysics; Nonlinear dynamics; Photonics

Indexed keywords

CHIP-SCALE; COHERENT COMBINATION; ELECTROSTRICTIVE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MATERIAL NON-LINEARITY; NANO SCALE; NANO-SCALE SYSTEM; NANOPHYSICS; NEW FORMS; NON-LINEARITY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHONON LOSS; RADIATION PRESSURE; SILICA FIBERS; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE; THEORETICAL FORMULATION; WAVEGUIDE GEOMETRY; WAVEGUIDE SYSTEMS;

DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHONONS; PHOTONICS; PRESSURE; SILICA; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; WAVEGUIDES;

STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 84860526074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.011008     Document Type: Article

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