The interaction of light and sound waves at the micro and nanoscale has attracted
considerable interest in recent years. The main reason is that this interaction is responsible …

Supercritical CO2 (s-CO2) operated in a closed-loop Brayton cycle offers the potential of
higher cycle efficiency versus superheated or supercritical steam cycles at temperatures …

We experimentally achieve wave-mode conversion and rainbow trapping in an elastic
waveguide loaded with an array of resonators. Rainbow trapping is a phenomenon that …

Recent years have witnessed the boom of cavity optomechanics, which exploits the
confinement and coupling of optical and mechanical waves at the nanoscale. Among their …

We study wave dispersion in a one-dimensional nonlinear elastic metamaterial consisting of
a thin rod with periodically attached local resonators. Our model is based on an exact finite …

Optical nonlinearities, such as thermo-optic mechanisms and free-carrier dispersion, are
often considered unwelcome effects in silicon-based resonators and, more specifically …

Cavity optomechanics has recently emerged as a new paradigm enabling the manipulation
of mechanical motion via optical fields tightly confined in deformable cavities. When driving …

We investigate the acousto-optic coupling, based on both photo-elastic and opto-
mechanical mechanisms, in periodic structures with simultaneous photonic and phononic …

We show efficient elastic energy transfer and wave confinement through a graded array of
resonators attached to an elastic beam. Experiments demonstrate that flexural resonators of …

The control and manipulation of acoustic/elastic waves is a fundamental problem with many
potential applications, especially in the field of information and communication technologies …