K. T. V. (2014). Rigorous characterization of acoustic-optical interactions in silicon slotwaveguides by full-vectorial finite element method. Optics Express, 22(8), pp. 9528-9537. doi: 10.1364/OE.22.009528 This is the unspecified version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Abstract: For the first time detailed interactions between optical and acoustic modes in a silicon slot waveguide are presented. A new computer code has been developed by using a full-vectorial formulation to study the acoustic modes in optical waveguides. The results have shown that the acoustic modes in an optical slot waveguide are not purely longitudinal or transverse but fully hybrid in nature. The model allows the effects of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering and the associated frequency shift due to the interaction of these hybrid acoustic modes with the fully hybrid optical mode also to be presented.
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V. GrattanAbstract-A finite-element code has been developed to study the vector acoustic modes in high index contrast silica optical waveguides. Detailed spatial variations of the transverse and longitudinal displacement vectors are shown for the bending, radial, and torsional modes. The variation of the frequency shift due to the stimulated Brillouin scattering and the overlaps seen between the acoustic and optical waveguides also are presented, together with the modal hybridness and modal dispersion.
The vector acoustic modes in both well-established and emerging designs of optical waveguides have been studied through use of a computer code which has been developed based on the finite element method (FEM). Dispersion curves and the displacement vectors for the transverse and longitudinal acoustic modes and the modal hybridness have been determined and these are shown for both low and high index contrast silica (SiO2) acoustic waveguides. Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) frequencies are also reported for the subwavelength size SiO2 optical waveguides.
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