In this paper we study a system consisting of two nearly degenerate mechanical modes that couple to a single mode of an optical cavity. We show that this coupling leads to nearly complete (99.5%) hybridization of the two mechanical modes into a bright mode that experiences strong optomechanical interactions and a dark mode that experiences almost no optomechanical interactions. We use this hybridization to transfer energy between the mechanical modes with 40% efficiency.
@article{arxiv.1306.0613,
title = {Optically Mediated Hybridization Between Two Mechanical Modes},
author = {A. B. Shkarin and N. E. Flowers-Jacobs and S. W. Hoch and A. D. Kashkanova and C. Deutsch and J. Reichel and J. G. E. Harris},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.0613},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11 pages, 8 figures (including supplemental material); the following article has been accepted by Physical Review Letters