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 …

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 …

Highly selective and reconfigurable microwave filters are of great importance in radio-
frequency signal processing. Microwave photonic (MWP) filters are of particular interest, as …

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

We review recent progress in inducing and harnessing stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS)
in integrated photonic circuits. Exciting SBS in a chip-scale device is challenging due to the …

A range of unique capabilities in optical and microwave signal processing and generation
have been demonstrated using stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). The need to harness …

Microwave photonic techniques are attractive for processing high bandwidth signals,
overcoming inherent electronic limitations. These processors provide new capabilities for …

Brillouin nonlinearities—which result from coupling between photons and acoustic phonons—
are exceedingly weak in conventional nanophotonic silicon waveguides. Only recently have …

A novel approach to implementing a narrow-passband and frequency-tunable microwave
photonic filter (MPF) based on phase-modulation to intensity-modulation conversion in a …

Recent theoretical studies of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in nanoscale devices have
led to intense research effort dedicated to the demonstration and application of this …