CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA.
Prysmian Group, Parc des Industried Artois Flandres, Douvrin 62138, France.
Sci Adv. 2023 Jun 30;9(26):eadg7841. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adg7841.
The laser is one of the greatest inventions in history. Because of its ubiquitous applications and profound societal impact, the concept of the laser has been extended to other physical domains including phonon lasers and atom lasers. Quite often, a laser in one physical domain is pumped by energy in another. However, all lasers demonstrated so far have only lased in one physical domain. We have experimentally demonstrated simultaneous photon and phonon lasing in a two-mode silica fiber ring cavity via forward intermodal stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) mediated by long-lived flexural acoustic waves. This two-domain laser may find potential applications in optical/acoustic tweezers, optomechanical sensing, microwave generation, and quantum information processing. Furthermore, we believe that this demonstration will usher in other multidomain lasers and related applications.
激光是历史上最伟大的发明之一。由于其无处不在的应用和深远的社会影响，激光的概念已经扩展到其他物理领域，包括声子激光和原子激光。通常情况下，一个物理领域的激光是由另一个领域的能量泵浦的。然而，到目前为止，所有展示的激光都只在一个物理领域中激射。我们通过长寿命弯曲声子波介导的前向模间受激布里渊散射（SBS），在双模二氧化硅光纤环腔中实验演示了光子和声子的同时激射。这种双域激光可能在光学/声学镊子、光机械传感、微波产生和量子信息处理等领域有潜在应用。此外，我们相信，这一演示将开创其他多领域激光及相关应用的先河。
