Brillouin scattering in thin film optical waveguides. II. Scattering theory

The general theory of Brillouin scattering out of the guided optical modes by the acoustic modes of a thin film optical waveguide is formulated in terms of a total field analysis which includes the effects of both the elastooptic and corrugation scattering mechanisms. The general analytical forms for the field discontinuities at the film boundaries are given and the spectral densities are evaluated for two particular radiative geometries. The results of numerical calculations for the geometries are presented.