Phase-dependent optical response properties in an optomechanical system by coherently driving the mechanical resonator

Abstract

We explore theoretically the optical response properties in an optomechanical system under electromagnetically induced transparency condition but with the mechanical resonator being driven by an additional coherent field. In this configuration, more complex quantum coherent and interference phenomena occur. In particular, we find that the probe transmission spectra depend on the total phase of the applied fields. Our study also provides an efficient way to control propagation of a probe field from perfect absorption to remarkable amplification.

Selective and switchable optical amplification with mechanical driven oscillators

“…The transitions |m, n 1 , n 2 ↔ |m + 1, n 1 , n 2 , |m, n 1 + 1, n 2 ↔ |m + 1, n 1 , n 2 , and |m, n 1 , n 2 ↔ |m, n 1 + 1, n 2 can be achieved by applying a probe field, an optical pump field, and a mechanical pump field. Clearly, the three couplings result in a closedloop ∆-type transition strcture, leading to the phasesensitive optical behaviors of the OMIT system [78][79][80]. As shown in Fig.…”

“…(11), the first term is the contribution from the standard OMIT process due to the destructive interference of the probe absorption [19,20]. The second and third term are the contribution from the phonon-photon parametric process [78] and the phonon-phonon parametric process [27], induced by driving the MR 1 and MR 2 . Clearly, these parametric process can modify and control the transmission of the signal field by adjusting the amplitude ε i and the photon-phonon mixing phase Φ i (i = 1, 2).…”

Phase-dependent double optomechanically induced transparency in a hybrid optomechanical cavity system with coherently mechanical driving*

“…Compared with the traditional optomechanical system, the photon-phonon interaction in those hybrid optomechanical systems can be controlled by not only the optical radiation pressure, but also the piezoelectric forces [4,5], Lorentz forces [18,19] or Coulombic forces [13,20].The interaction between the optical and mechanical modes can generate many interesting phenomena in the optomechanical systems, such as the optomechanical induced transparency (OMIT). OMIT is a phenomenon that a photon-cavity can be changed from opacity to transparency, it arises from the quantum interference effect between different energy levels [5,8,[21][22][23][24][25]. Similar to the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), which was observed in the three-level atomic systems [26][27][28][29], OMIT also can be been applied in many fields, including quantum ground-state cooling [30,31], fast and slow light [32,33], and quantum information processing [34,35].Compared with a traditional optomechanical system, in the hybrid optomechanical systems, the single-OMIT has been extended to the double-OMIT [10,13,36,37,37,[37][38][39][40].…”

Optomechanical second-order sidebands and group delays in a Kerr resonator

“…Beyond this picture, high-order OMIT effects also emerge due to the intrinsic nonlinear OM interactions [13][14][15], such as photon-phonon polariton pairs [16] and sideband generations [17]. OMIT not only provides an alternative approach for achieving quantum memories [18][19][20][21], but also opens up the way to explore a variety of new effects, such as nonreciprocal OMIT [22], phase-tuned OMIT [23], active OMIT [24], two-color OMIT [25] and OMIT with Bogoliubov phonons [26]. In contrast, high-order OMIT sidebands are generally much weaker than the probe signal and thus hard to be detected or utilized.…”