Abstract
In order to deliberately control the flow of optically encoded information, optical storage is an indispensable tool, but it must maintain all the advantages of optics, such as i.e. the coherence, the bandwidth and capacity. An elegant approach to this problem is to coherently transfer the information from optical to acoustic waves via an opto-mechanical nonlinearity, such as stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). The basic concept was first demonstrated in highly nonlinear fiber by Zhu et al. [1]. Recently, we experimentally demonstrated the coherence of this memory concept by encoding different amplitude and phase levels in an integrated photonic circuit [2] and the compatibility with wavelength division multiplexing [3]. This concept is based on a straight waveguide without the need of a structural resonance as an opto-mechanical resonator or a photonic crystal cavity. Therefore, the memory operation can be arbitrarily positioned on the photonic chip and can even be repeated and cascaded several times, via external control light pulses.
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