Abstract
Stimulated Brillouin scattering describes a way to excite coherent acoustic phonons solely by optically forces in integrated waveguides. It was shown recently that one can use these acoustic phonons to store and delay optical signals [1], [2]. The optical information is resonantly transferred to a coherent acoustic phonon and is then transferred back to the optical domain by a delayed optical retrieval pulse. The storage time, however, is so far limited to a few nanoseconds, determined by the lifetime of the acoustic phonon. A delay of several nanoseconds might be enough for delaying some high speed signals, however increasing the delay time beyond the acoustic lifetime would enable new possibilities for phonon-based on-chip optical signal processing.
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