A mechanical Kerr effect in deformable photonic media

W. H.P. Pernice; Mo Li; H. X. Tang

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A mechanical Kerr effect in deformable photonic media

W. H.P. Pernice, Mo Li, H. X. Tang

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

We theoretically introduce a mechanism for achieving the mechanical analog of optical Kerr nonlinearity. By exploiting optomechanical interactions in deformable waveguide structures, a nonlinear phase shift proportional to the optical field intensity is induced. Resulting Kerr coefficients several orders of magnitude larger than the intrinsic silicon optical Kerr coefficient are predicted.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	123507
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	95
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3236530
State	Published - 2009

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H.X.T. acknowledges support from an NSF career award (NSF Grant No. ECCS-0846919) and a seedling support from DARPA/MTO. W.H.P.P. would like to thank the Alexander-von-Humboldt foundation for providing a postdoctoral fellowship.

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