Solid State & Optics Seminar
sponsored by “The Flint Fund Series on Quantum Devices and Nanostructures”
Date : Wednesday, 11/16/22
Time: 1:00PM
Speaker: Prof. Peter Rakich, Yale University
Location: YQI Seminar Room
Zoom Link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/92875940965?pwd=NWE2ZTV6cld2bTQ4bFhaRjVDazdldz09
Meeting ID: 928 7594 0965
Harnessing photon-phonon interactions for classical and quantum applications
In recent years, acoustic phonons have emerged as a powerful resource for signal processing, precision metrology, and quantum information processing. In this presentation, we explore methods for controlling and shaping the interactions between photons and acoustic phonons as the basis for both classical and quantum information processing applications. We begin by describing how traveling-wave photon-phonon coupling can be engineered within silicon-based optomechanical waveguides to realize a range of new Brillouin-based optomechanical interactions. Harnessing these interactions, we create non-reciprocal light propagation, optical amplifiers, and laser oscillators as the basis for new signal processing technologies in silicon photonics.