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Rigorous Analysis of Acousto-Optic Interactions in Optical Waveguides

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Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) is a nonlinear process between interacting light and sound waves. For an accurate analysis of the interaction between the guided optical and acoustic modes, a rigorous yet computationally efficient numerical approach is needed. A finite element based full-vectorial approach was developed to find modal solutions of acoustic modes in low and high-index contrast waveguides. The SBS frequency shift, the overlaps between the quasi-TE fundamental optical mode the fundamental and the higher order quasi-shear and quasi-longitudinal acoustic modes, and SBS gain curves are also presented.

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    B. M. A. Rahman, M. M. Rahman, S. Sriratanavaree, N. Kejalakshmy & K. T. V. Grattan

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Rahman, B.M.A., Rahman, M.M., Sriratanavaree, S., Kejalakshmy, N., Grattan, K.T.V. (2017). Rigorous Analysis of Acousto-Optic Interactions in Optical Waveguides. In: Agrawal, A., Benson, T., De La Rue, R., Wurtz, G. (eds) Recent Trends in Computational Photonics. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 204. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55438-9_4

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