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We present an experimental study of an optomechanical system formed by a vibrating thin semi-transparent membrane within a high-finesse optical cavity. We show that the coupling between the optical cavity modes and the vibrational modes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-27 M. Karuza , M. Galassi , C. Biancofiore , C. Molinelli , R. Natali , P. Tombesi , G. Di Giuseppe , D. Vitali

In cavity optomechanics, nanomechanical motion couples to a localized optical mode. The regime of single-photon strong coupling is reached when the optical shift induced by a single phonon becomes comparable to the cavity linewidth. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-22 Max Ludwig , Amir H. Safavi-Naeini , Oskar Painter , Florian Marquardt

We investigate the quantum synchronization phenomena of two mechanical oscillators of different frequencies in two optomechanical systems under periodically modulating cavity detunings or driving amplitudes, which can interact mutually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Guo-jian Qiao , Hui-xia Gao , Hao-di Liu , X. X. Yi

With a variety of realisations, optomechanics utilizes its light matter interaction to test fundamental physics. By coupling the phonons of a mechanical resonator to the photons in a high quality cavity, control of increasingly macroscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 L. F. Deeg , D. Zoepfl , N. Diaz-Naufal , M. L. Juan , A. Metelmann , G. Kirchmair

Optomechanical systems provide a unique platform for observing quantum behavior of macroscopic objects. However, efforts towards realizing nonlinear behavior at the single photon level have been inhibited by the small size of the radiation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-14 Xunnong Xu , Michael Gullans , Jacob M. Taylor

A significant challenge in the development of chip-scale cavity-optomechanical devices as testbeds for quantum experiments and classical metrology lies in the coupling of light from nanoscale optical mode volumes to conventional optical…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Justin D. Cohen , Sean Meenehan , Oskar Painter

We present a detailed theoretical analysis of a weakly driven multimode optomechanical system, in which two optical modes are strongly and near-resonantly coupled to a single mechanical mode via a three-wave mixing interaction. We calculate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-12 P. Kómár , S. D. Bennett , K. Stannigel , S. J. M. Habraken , P. Rabl , P. Zoller , M. D. Lukin

We study unconventional cavity optomechanics and the acoustic analogue of radiation pressure to show the possibility of nonlinear coherent control of phonons in the acoustic quantum vacuum. Specifically, we study systems where a quantized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Xin Wang , Wei Qin , Adam Miranowicz , Salvatore Savasta , Franco Nori

The energy transfer between different subsystems or different vibration modes is always one of the most interested problems in the study of the resonance phenomena in coupled nonlinear dynamical systems. With an optomechanical system…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-12 Qing Lin , Yi Wu , Gang Li , Bing He

We investigate the nonlinear interaction between a squeezed cavity mode and a mechanical mode in an optomechanical system (OMS) that allows us to selectively obtain either a radiation-pressure coupling or a parametric-amplification process.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Xin-You Lü , Ying Wu , J. R. Johansson , Hui Jing , Jing Zhang , Franco Nori

We identify signatures of the intrinsic nonlinear interaction between light and mechanical motion in cavity optomechanical systems. These signatures are observable even when the cavity linewidth exceeds the optomechanical coupling rate. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-12 K. Borkje , A. Nunnenkamp , J. D. Teufel , S. M. Girvin

Exploring the fundamental quantum behaviour of optomechanical resonators is of great interest recently but requires the realization of the strong coupling regime. We study the optical photon-phonon coupling of the so-called membrane in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Keyu Xia , Jason Twamley

We study a system of interacting matter quasiparticles strongly coupled to photons inside an optomechanical cavity. The resulting normal modes of the system are represented by hybrid polaritonic quasiparticles, which acquire effective…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-02-27 N. Bobrovska , M. Matuszewski , T. C. H. Liew , O. Kyriienko

We consider an optical and mechanical mode interacting through both linear and quadratic dispersive couplings in a general cavity-optomechanical set-up. The parity and strength of an intrinsic quadratic optomechanical coupling (QOC)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-28 U. Satya Sainadh , M. Anil Kumar

The interaction between a high-frequency dilational mode of a thin dielectric film and an optical cavity field is studied theoretically in the membrane-in-the-middle setup. A derivation from first principles leads to a multi-mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 K. Borkje , S. M. Girvin

It is well-known that the nonlinear coupling between a mechanical oscillator and a superconducting oscillator or optical cavity can be used to generate a Kerr-nonlinearity for the cavity mode. We show that the strength of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-18 Jie-Qiao Liao , Kurt Jacobs , Franco Nori , Raymond W. Simmonds

Quantum optomechanical system serves as an interface for coupling between photons and phonons due to mechanical oscillations. We used the Heisenberg-Langevin approach under Markovian white noise approximation to study a quadratically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Shailendra Kumar Singh , S. V. Muniandy

The formation of a submicron optical cavity on one side of a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) tunneling device induces a measurable electrical current between the two metal layers with no applied voltage. Reducing the cavity thickness increases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-06 Garret Moddel , Ayendra Weerakkody , David Doroski , Dylan Bartusiak

Highly reflecting mechanically compliant membranes based on photonic-crystal patterns have recently gained increasing attention within cavity optomechanics due to their prospects of reaching high coupling rates in membrane-in-the-middle…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-07 Georg Enzian , Eugene S. Polzik , Alexander K. Tagantsev

Chip-scale multimode optomechanical systems have unique benefits for sensing, metrology and quantum technologies relative to their single-mode counterparts. Slot-mode optomechanical crystals enable sideband resolution and large…