Brillouin integrated photonics

BJ Eggleton, CG Poulton, PT Rakich, MJ Steel… - Nature Photonics, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Controlling phonons and photons at the wavelength scale: integrated photonics meets integrated phononics

AH Safavi-Naeini, D Van Thourhout, R Baets… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Radio-frequency communication systems have long used bulk-and surface-acoustic-wave
devices supporting ultrasonic mechanical waves to manipulate and sense signals. These …

Photonic microwave generation in the X-and K-band using integrated soliton microcombs

J Liu, E Lucas, AS Raja, J He, J Riemensberger… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Microwave photonic technologies, which upshift the carrier into the optical domain, have
facilitated the generation and processing of ultra-wideband electronic signals at vastly …

Sub-hertz fundamental linewidth photonic integrated Brillouin laser

S Gundavarapu, GM Brodnik, M Puckett, T Huffman… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Chip-scale high-performance photonic microwave oscillator

Y He, L Cheng, H Wang, Y Zhang, R Meade… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
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 …

A low-noise photonic heterodyne synthesizer and its application to millimeter-wave radar

EA Kittlaus, D Eliyahu, S Ganji, S Williams… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Microwave photonics offers transformative capabilities for ultra-wideband electronic signal
processing and frequency synthesis with record-low phase noise levels. Despite the intrinsic …

Integrated microwave photonic notch filter using a heterogeneously integrated Brillouin and active-silicon photonic circuit

M Garrett, Y Liu, M Merklein, CT Bui, CK Lai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Microwave photonics (MWP) has unlocked a new paradigm for Radio Frequency (RF) signal
processing by harnessing the inherent broadband and tunable nature of photonic …

100 years of Brillouin scattering: Historical and future perspectives

M Merklein, IV Kabakova, A Zarifi… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The Year 2022 marks 100 years since Leon Brillouin predicted and theoretically described
the interaction of optical waves with acoustic waves in a medium. Accordingly, this resonant …

Optoelectronic oscillators with time-delayed feedback

YK Chembo, D Brunner, M Jacquot, L Larger - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
Time-delayed optoelectronic oscillators are at the center of a large body of scientific
literature. The complex behavior of these nonlinear oscillators has been thoroughly explored …

Recent advances in optoelectronic oscillators

T Hao, Y Liu, J Tang, Q Cen, W Li, N Zhu… - Advanced …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
An optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) is a microwave photonic system that produces microwave
signals with ultralow phase noise using a high-quality-factor optical energy storage element …