In this paper, we examine and suppress the effects of stimulated Brillouin scattering on the phase noise of a 10 GHz signal transmitted over an RF-photonic link. We demonstrate the appearance of interference peaks in the RF phase noise of a microwave signal transmitted through a 10 km optical fiber link. We attribute these peaks to double Brillouin scattering using a reduced model. We determine...

Nanoscale modal confinement is known to radically enhance the effect of intrinsic Kerr and Raman nonlinearities within nanophotonic silicon waveguides. By contrast, stimulated Brillouin-scattering nonlinearities, which involve coherent coupling between guided photon and phonon modes, are stifled in conventional nanophotonics, preventing the realization of a host of Brillouin-based signal-proces...

LLE Review, Volume 72 177 In stimulated Brillouin scattering1 (SBS) an incident (pump) light wave is scattered by the electron-density fluctuations associated with an ion-acoustic (sound) wave. This process generates a frequency-upshifted (anti-Stokes) light wave and a frequency-downshifted (Stokes) light wave. For most scattering angles the anti-Stokes wave is driven nonresonantly and can be n...