title: Coherent phonon optics in a chip with an electrically controlled active device.
abstract: Phonon optics concerns operations with high-frequency acoustic waves in solid media in a similar way to how traditional optics operates with the light beams (i.e. photons). Phonon optics experiments with coherent terahertz and sub-terahertz phonons promise a revolution in various technical applications related to high-frequency acoustics, imaging, and heat transport. Previously, phonon optics used passive methods for manipulations with propagating phonon beams that did not enable their external control. Here we fabricate a phononic chip, which includes a generator of coherent monochromatic phonons with frequency 378 GHz, a sensitive coherent phonon detector, and an active layer: a doped semiconductor superlattice, with electrical contacts, inserted into the phonon propagation path. In the experiments, we demonstrate the modulation of the coherent phonon flux by an external electrical bias applied to the active layer. Phonon optics using external control broadens the spectrum of prospective applications of phononics on the nanometer scale.
authors: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom.
authors: Caroline L
authors: CL
authors: Poyser
authors: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom.
authors: Andrey V
authors: AV
authors: Akimov
authors: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom.
authors: Richard P
authors: RP
authors: Campion
authors: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom.
authors: Anthony J
authors: AJ
authors: Kent
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