A recent renaissance in Brillouin scattering research has been driven by the increasing
maturity of photonic integration platforms and nanophotonics. The result is a new breed of …

High-and ultrahigh-Q whispering-gallery mode resonators have the capability to trap
photons by total internal reflection for a duration ranging from nanoseconds to milliseconds …

Spectrally pure lasers, the heart of precision high-end scientific and commercial
applications, are poised to make the leap from the laboratory to integrated circuits …

Optical frequency division based on bulk or fiber optics provides unprecedented spectral
purity for microwave oscillators. To extend the applications of this approach, the challenges …

In the past decade there has been a surge in research at the boundary between photonics
and phononics. Most efforts have centred on coupling light to motion in a high-quality optical …

Abstract Both Kerr and Raman nonlinearities are radically enhanced by tight optical-mode
confinement in nanoscale silicon waveguides,,,. Counterintuitively, Brillouin nonlinearities …

“Cavity-optomechanics” aims to study the quantum properties of mechanical systems. A
common strategy implemented in order to achieve this goal couples a high finesse photonic …

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS), as one type of third-order nonlinear optics effect, is
extensively exploited and rapidly developed in the field of lasers and optoelectronics. A …

The interaction between light and mesoscopic mechanical degrees of freedom has been
investigated under various perspectives, from spectroscopy in condensed matter, optical …

Optical frequency division by using frequency combs has revolutionized time keeping and
the generation of stable microwave signals. We demonstrate optical frequency division and …