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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 21, Issue 25, Pages 31402-31419Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.031402
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- MesoDynamic Architectures program at the DARPA
- Alfred. P. Sloan Research Fellowship
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We develop a general framework of evaluating the Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) gain coefficient in optical waveguides via the overlap integral between optical and elastic eigen-modes. This full-vectorial formulation of SBS coupling rigorously accounts for the effects of both radiation pressure and electrostriction within micro- and nano-scale waveguides. We show that both contributions play a critical role in SBS coupling as modal confinement approaches the sub-wavelength scale. Through analysis of each contribution to the optical force, we show that spatial symmetry of the optical force dictates the selection rules of the excitable elastic modes. By applying this method to a rectangular silicon waveguide, we demonstrate how the optical force distribution and elastic modal profiles jointly determine the magnitude and scaling of SBS gains in both forward and backward SBS processes. We further apply this method to the study of intra-and inter-modal SBS processes, and demonstrate that the coupling between distinct optical modes are necessary to excite elastic modes with all possible symmetries. For example, we show that strong inter-polarization coupling can be achieved between the fundamental TE- and TM-like modes of a suspended silicon waveguide. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
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