Stimulated Brillouin scattering in hybrid chalcogenide-PMMA microwires

Jean-Charles Beugnot (1) , Raja Ahmad (2) , Martin Rochette (2) , Vincent Laude (1) , Hervé Maillotte (1) , Thibaut Sylvestre (1)

1 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)
2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering [Montréal]

We investigate the onset of nonlinear effects in hybrid As2Se3-PMMA microwires and demonstrate that they provide an enhanced Kerr nonlinearity while mitigating stimulated Brillouin scattering when compared to chalcogenide and silica optical fibers.

Domaines: Optique / photonique; Optique [physics.optics]

Jean-Charles Beugnot, Raja Ahmad, Martin Rochette, Vincent Laude, Hervé Maillotte, et al.. Stimulated Brillouin scattering in hybrid chalcogenide-PMMA microwires. Proceeding of Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and their Applications (WSOF) 2013, Jan 2013, Sweden. pp.F2.13. ⟨hal-00949407⟩