Giant Enhancement of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in the Subwavelength Limit

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is traditionally viewed as a process whose strength is dictated by intrinsic material nonlinearities with little dependence on waveguide geometry. We show that this paradigm breaks down at the nanoscale, as tremendous radiation pressures produce new forms of SBS...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Peter T. Rakich, Charles Reinke, Ryan Camacho, Paul Davids, Zheng Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2012-01-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.2.011008