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Here, we study the controllable optical responses in a two-cavity optomechanical system, especially on the $\mathit{perfect}$ optomechanically induced transparency (OMIT) in the model which has never been studied before. The results show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Lai-Bin Qian , Xiao-Bo Yan

We review the emerging field of optomechanics, where the radiation pressure of light circulating inside an optical cavity is employed to cool, manipulate and read out micro- and nanomechanical oscillators. These systems display a rich…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-06 Florian Marquardt , S. M. Girvin

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

The subject of optomechanics involves interactions between optical and mechanical degrees of freedom, and is currently of great interest as an enabler of fundamental investigations in quantum mechanics, as well as a platform for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Hao Shi , Mishkat Bhattacharya

The search for new control methods over light-matter interactions is one of the engines that advances fundamental physics and applied science alike. A specific class of light-matter interaction interfaces are setups coupling photons of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Wen-Te Liao , Adriana Pálffy

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

Correlated phases of matter provide long-term stability for systems as diverse as solids, magnets, and potential exotic quantum materials. Mechanical systems, such as relays and buckling transition spring switches can yield similar…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-30 Haitan Xu , Utku Kemiktarak , Jingyun Fan , Stephen Ragole , John Lawall , Jacob M. Taylor

As one of the most influential experiments on the development of modern macroscopic theory from Newtonian mechanics to Einstein's special theory of relativity, the phenomenon of light dragging in a moving medium has been discussed and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Pei-Chen Kuan , Chang Huang , Wei Sheng Chan , Sandoko Kosen , Shau-Yu Lan

The Fresnel-Fizeau effect of transverse drag, in which the trajectory of a light beam changes due to transverse motion of the optical medium, is usually extremely small and hard to detect. We observe transverse drag in a moving hot-vapor…

Understanding the momentum of light when propagating through optical media is not only fundamental for studies as varied as classical electrodynamics and polaritonics in condensed matter physics, but also for important applications such as…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-06 Deng Pan , Hongxing Xu , F Javier García de Abajo

We study optomechanically-induced transparency (OMIT) in a compound system consisting of an optical cavity and an acoustic molecule, which features not only double OMIT peaks but also light advance. We find that by selectively driving one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Tian-Xiang Lu , Ya-Feng Jiao , Hui-Lai Zhang , Farhan Saif , Hui Jing

We study the optomechanically induced amplification and perfect transparency in a double-cavity optomechanical system. We find if two control lasers with appropriate amplitudes and detunings are applied to drive the system, the phenomenon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 Xiao-Bo Yan , W. Z. Jia , Yong Li , Jin-Hui Wu

We consider a one-dimensional optomechanical lattice where each site is strongly driven by a control laser to enhance the basic optomechanical interaction. We then study the propagation of photons injected by an additional probe laser beam;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Wei Chen , Aashish A. Clerk

Light propagating in a moving medium with refractive index other than unity is subject to light drag. While the light drag effect due to the linear refractive index is often negligibly small, it can be enhanced in materials with a large…

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

Mechanical motion of photonic devices driven by optical forces provides a profound means of coupling between optical fields. The current focus of these optomechanical effects has been on cavity optomechanics systems in which co-localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 Huan Li , Mo Li

Optomechanically induced transparency is an important quantum phenomenon in cavity optomechanics. Here, we study the properties of optomechanically induced transparency in the simplest optomechanical system (consisting of one cavity and one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Xiao-Bo Yan

We theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate optically tunable nonlinear mechanical damping in a cavity optomechanical system utilizing a partly resolved sideband regime. Optomechanical coupling provides a delayed nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Hideki Arahari , Motoki Asano , Hiroshi Yamaguchi , Hajime Okamoto

We study tunable optomechanically induced transparency by controlling the dark-mode effect induced by two mechanical modes coupled to a common cavity field. This is realized by introducing a phase-dependent phonon-exchange interaction,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-17 Deng-Gao Lai , Xin Wang , Wei Qin , Bang-Pin Hou , Franco Nori , Jie-Qiao Liao

We theoretically demonstrate complete all-optical control of light group velocity via a cavity optomechanical system composed of an optical cavity and a mechanical resonator. The realization depends on no specific materials inside the…

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