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Nonreciprocal photon blockade via quadratic optomechanical coupling

Quantum Physics 2020-07-31 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Optics

Abstract

We propose to manipulate the statistic properties of the photons transport nonreciprocally via quadratic optomechanical coupling. We present a scheme to generate quadratic optomechanical interactions in the normal optical modes of a whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) optomechanical system by eliminating the linear optomechanical couplings via anticrossing of different modes. By optically pumping the WGM optomechanical system in one direction, the effective quadratic optomechanical coupling in that direction will be enhanced significantly, and nonreciprocal photon blockade will be observed consequently. Our proposal has potential applications for the on-chip nonreciprocal single-photon devices.

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@article{arxiv.1809.07596,
  title  = {Nonreciprocal photon blockade via quadratic optomechanical coupling},
  author = {Xun-Wei Xu and Yan-Jun Zhao and Hui Wang and Hui Jing and Ai-Xi Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.07596},
  year   = {2020}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures

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