Title :
Stimulated Brillouin scattering in polymer-coated chalcogenide microfibers
Author :
Beugnot, J.C. ; Tchahame, J.C. ; Maillotte, H. ; Laude, V. ; Sylvestre, Thibaut ; Ahmad, Rabiah ; Rochette, Martin
Author_Institution :
FEMTO-ST Inst., Univ. de Franche-Comte, Besancon, France
Abstract :
Stimulated Brillouin scattering is experimentally demonstrated in several polymer-coated chalcogenide microfibers. It is shown that the Brillouin frequency shift can be widely tuned with the wire diameter and that the polymer cladding substantially broadens the Brillouin line width, thus leading to enhanced nonlinear figure-of-merit.
Keywords :
glass fibres; micro-optics; optical fibre cladding; optical films; polymer films; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Brillouin frequency shift; Brillouin linewidth; nonlinear figure-of-merit; polymer cladding; polymer-coated chalcogenide microfibers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Brillouin scattering; Optical mixing; Optical scattering; Optical sensors; Polymers;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2766-1
DOI :
10.1109/SUM.2014.62
