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Enhanced Brillouin amplification in Si

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Engineering optical and acoustic modes in membrane silicon waveguides has now been used to demonstrate record high net Brillouin amplification in silicon. This technique enables new possible applications including silicon on-chip Brillouin amplification, Brillouin lasers, and Brillouin devices for signal processing.

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Figure 1: Phonon mode dispersion for principal points in the Brillouin zone and tethered waveguide device.

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  1. Tom Baehr-Jones and Ruizhi Shi are at Coriant Advanced Technology, 171 Madison Avenue Suite 1100, New York, New York 10016, USA,

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  2. Daniel J. Blumenthal is in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Engineering Sciences Building, Room 2221F, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA and is also with Coriant Advanced Technology,

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Baehr-Jones, T., Shi, R. & Blumenthal, D. Enhanced Brillouin amplification in Si. Nature Photon 10, 432–434 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.127

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