Coherent Control Of Ultra-high Frequency Acoustic Resonances In Photonic Crystal Fibers

Abstract

Acoustic resonances trapped within the glass core (1 μm diameter) of a photonic crystal fibre are excited electrostrictively using laser pulses. Using pulse sequences they can be coherently controlled leading to a 100-fold increase in their amplitude. © 2008 Optical Society of America.Heberle, A.P., Ultrafast coherent control and destruction of excitons in quantum-wells (1995) Physical Review Letters, 75 (13), pp. 2598-2601Feurer, T., Vaughan, J.C., Nelson, K.A., Spatiotemporal coherent control of lattice vibrational waves (2003) Science, 299 (5605), pp. 374-377Biryukov, A.S., Excitation of sound waves upon propagation of laser pulses in optical fibres (2002) Quantum Electronics, 32 (9), pp. 765-775Dainese, P., Raman-like light scattering from acoustic phonons in photonic crystal fiber (2006) Optics Express, 14 (9), pp. 4141-4150Wiederhecker, G.S., Coherent control of ultra-high frequency acoustic resonances in photonic crystal fibers (2007), arXiv:0711.4365Marcuse, D., Coupled-mode theory for anisotropic optical. waveguides (1975) Bell System Technical Journal, pp. 985-99