Optomechanics driven by noisy and narrowband fields

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Main Authors: Banniard, Louise, Wang, Cheng, Stirpe, Davide, Børkje, Kjetil, Massel, Francesco, de Lépinay, Laure Mercier, Sillanpää, Mika A.
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Published: 2024
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author Banniard, Louise
Wang, Cheng
Stirpe, Davide
Børkje, Kjetil
Massel, Francesco
de Lépinay, Laure Mercier
Sillanpää, Mika A.
author_facet Banniard, Louise
Wang, Cheng
Stirpe, Davide
Børkje, Kjetil
Massel, Francesco
de Lépinay, Laure Mercier
Sillanpää, Mika A.
contents We report a study of a cavity optomechanical system driven by narrow-band electromagnetic fields, which are applied either in the form of uncorrelated noise, or as a more structured spectrum. The bandwidth of the driving spectra is smaller than the mechanical resonant frequency, and thus we can describe the resulting physics using concepts familiar from regular cavity optomechanics in the resolved-sideband limit. With a blue-detuned noise driving, the noise-induced interaction leads to anti-damping of the mechanical oscillator, and a self-oscillation threshold at an average noise power that is comparable to that of a coherent driving tone. This process can be seen as noise-induced dynamical amplification of mechanical motion. However, when the noise bandwidth is reduced down to the order of the mechanical damping, we discover a large shift of the power threshold of self-oscillation. This is due to the oscillator adiabatically following the instantaneous noise profile. In addition to blue-detuned noise driving, we investigate narrow-band driving consisting of two coherent drive tones nearby in frequency. Also in these cases, we observe deviations from a naive optomechanical description relying only on the tones' frequencies and powers.
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spellingShingle Optomechanics driven by noisy and narrowband fields
Banniard, Louise
Wang, Cheng
Stirpe, Davide
Børkje, Kjetil
Massel, Francesco
de Lépinay, Laure Mercier
Sillanpää, Mika A.
Quantum Physics
We report a study of a cavity optomechanical system driven by narrow-band electromagnetic fields, which are applied either in the form of uncorrelated noise, or as a more structured spectrum. The bandwidth of the driving spectra is smaller than the mechanical resonant frequency, and thus we can describe the resulting physics using concepts familiar from regular cavity optomechanics in the resolved-sideband limit. With a blue-detuned noise driving, the noise-induced interaction leads to anti-damping of the mechanical oscillator, and a self-oscillation threshold at an average noise power that is comparable to that of a coherent driving tone. This process can be seen as noise-induced dynamical amplification of mechanical motion. However, when the noise bandwidth is reduced down to the order of the mechanical damping, we discover a large shift of the power threshold of self-oscillation. This is due to the oscillator adiabatically following the instantaneous noise profile. In addition to blue-detuned noise driving, we investigate narrow-band driving consisting of two coherent drive tones nearby in frequency. Also in these cases, we observe deviations from a naive optomechanical description relying only on the tones' frequencies and powers.
title Optomechanics driven by noisy and narrowband fields
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00546