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Cavity Optomechanical system is speedily approaching the regime where the radiation pressure of a single photon displaces the moving mirror. In this paper, we consider a cavity optomechanical system where the cavity field is driven by an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-15 M. A. Khan , S. C. Hou , K. Farooq , X. X. Yi

The ability to engineer cavity-mediated interactions has emerged as a powerful tool for the generation of non-local correlations and the investigation of non-equilibrium phenomena in many-body systems. Levitated optomechanical systems have…

Recently, remarkable advances have been made in coupling a number of high-Q modes of nano-mechanical systems to high-finesse optical cavities, with the goal of reaching regimes where quantum behavior can be observed and leveraged toward new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-01 D. E. Chang , C. A. Regal , S. B. Papp , D. J. Wilson , J. Ye , O. Painter , H. J. Kimble , P. Zoller

Cavity optomechanics offers a versatile platform for both fundamental physics and ultrasensitive sensing. Importantly, resonant enhancement in both optical and mechanical responses enables the highly sensitive optical detection of small…

$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry-breaking enhanced cavity optomechanical magnetometer is proposed, which is achieved by monitoring the change of intensity of a nonlinear four-wave mixing (FWM) process in a gain-cavity-assisted cavity optomechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Zhucheng Zhang , Yi-Ping Wang , Xiaoguang Wang

Precision measurement of non-linear observables is an important goal in all facets of quantum optics. This allows measurement-based non-classical state preparation, which has been applied to great success in various physical systems, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-20 G. A. Brawley , M. R. Vanner , P. E. Larsen , S. Schmid , A. Boisen , W. P. Bowen

We simulate an optomechanical system via a cavity QED scenario with a movable atom and investigate its application in the tiny mass sensing. We find that the steady-state solution of the system exhibits a multiple stability behavior, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Mingzhu Weng , Tian Tian , Zhihai Wang

Optomechanics is concerned with the use of light to control mechanical objects. As a field, it has been hugely successful in the production of precise and novel sensors, the development of low-dissipation nanomechanical devices, and the…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-23 James Millen , Tania S. Monteiro , Robert Pettit , A. Nick Vamivakas

We explain optical and mirrors displacement bistability in a hybrid optomechanical system in the presence of a strong laser driving field and a weak probe field. External modulating fields are applied selectively on movable mirrors. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Sohail Ahmed , Asma Javaid , Hui Jing , Farhan Saif

The coupling of mechanical oscillators with light has seen a recent surge of interest, as recent reviews report.[1, 2] This coupling is enhanced when confining light in an optical cavity where the mechanical oscillator is integrated as…

We show that the dynamical Casimir effect in an optomechanical system can be achieved under incoherent mechanical pumping. We adopt a fully quantum-mechanical approach for both the cavity field and the oscillating mirror. The dynamics is…

We propose a new method to optically levitate a macroscopic mirror with two vertical Fabry-P{\'e}rot cavities linearly aligned. This configuration gives the simplest possible optical levitation in which the number of laser beams used is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-12 Yuta Michimura , Yuya Kuwahara , Takafumi Ushiba , Nobuyuki Matsumoto , Masaki Ando

According to quantum mechanics, if we keep observing a continuous variable we generally disturb its evolution. For a class of observables, however, it is possible to implement a so-called quantum nondemolition measurement: by confining the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 A. Pontin , M. Bonaldi , A. Borrielli , L. Marconi , F. Marino , G. Pandraud , G. A. Prodi , P. M. Sarro , E. Serra , F. Marin

We review the field of cavity optomechanics, which explores the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and nano- or micromechanical motion. This review covers the basics of optical cavities and mechanical resonators, their mutual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Markus Aspelmeyer , Tobias J. Kippenberg , Florian Marquardt

Cavity optomechanics is a tool to study the interaction between light and micromechanical motion. Here we observe near-quantum limited optomechanical physics in a truly macroscopic oscillator. As the mechanical system, we use a mm-sized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 J. T. Santos , J. Li , J. Ilves , C. F. Ockeloen-Korppi , M. A. Sillanpaa

This paper shows a novel method to precisely measure the laser power using an optomechanical system. By measuring a mirror displacement caused by the reflection of an amplitude modulated laser beam, the number of photons in the incident…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-01-28 Kazuhiro Agatsuma , Daniel Friedrich , Stefan Ballmer , Giulia DeSalvo , Shihori Sakata , Erina Nishida , Seiji Kawamura

The measurement of extremely small displacements is of utmost importance, both for fundamental studies [1-4], and practical applications [5-7]. One way to estimate a small displacement is to measure the Doppler shift generated in light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-30 Bethany J. Little , Julián Martínez-Rincón , Umberto Bortolozzo , Stefania Residori , John C. Howell

Exploring quantum physics in macroscopic systems and manipulating these systems for various technological applications has been a topic of intense research in the last one decade or so. In this regard, the field of cavity quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Amarendra K. Sarma , Sampreet Kalita

We analyse the dynamics of a one-dimensional vertical Fabry-P\'erot cavity, where the upper mirror levitates due to intra-cavity radiation pressure force. A perturbative approach is used based around separation of timescales, which allows…

Optomechanical systems are a promising candidate for the implementation of quantum interfaces for storing and redistributing quantum information. Here we focus on the case of a high-finesse optical cavity with a thin vibrating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Karuza , C. Biancofiore , M. Galassi , R. Natali , G. Di Giuseppe , P. Tombesi , D. Vitali