Pump-Threshold-Free Frequency Comb via Cavity Floquet Engineering

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Autores principales: Wang, Sihan, Wang, Cheng, de Jong, Matthijs H. J., de Lépinay, Laure Mercier, Zhou, Jingwei, Sillanpää, Mika A., Liu, Yulong
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author Wang, Sihan
Wang, Cheng
de Jong, Matthijs H. J.
de Lépinay, Laure Mercier
Zhou, Jingwei
Sillanpää, Mika A.
Liu, Yulong
author_facet Wang, Sihan
Wang, Cheng
de Jong, Matthijs H. J.
de Lépinay, Laure Mercier
Zhou, Jingwei
Sillanpää, Mika A.
Liu, Yulong
contents Frequency combs have revolutionized communication, metrology, and spectroscopy. Considerable efforts have been devoted to developing integrated combs, primarily leveraging Pockels or Kerr nonlinearities. Here, we demonstrate an alternative frequency comb generated via cavity Floquet engineering. By periodically modulating the cavity resonance frequency through a driven mechanical oscillator, a Floquet cavity with multiple equally spaced frequency components is created. These sidebands exhibit nearest-neighbor coupling and are phase-locked to the external modulation drive. A pump tone interacts with the pre-modulated cavity to generate the output frequency comb, which we implement in an on-chip microwave cavity optomechanical system. This approach operates independently of a pumping threshold and is insensitive to pump detuning. Consequently, it enables comb generation under far-sideband pumping with nanowatt-scale total power consumption, providing an ultra-low-power platform for integrated frequency comb synthesis.
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spellingShingle Pump-Threshold-Free Frequency Comb via Cavity Floquet Engineering
Wang, Sihan
Wang, Cheng
de Jong, Matthijs H. J.
de Lépinay, Laure Mercier
Zhou, Jingwei
Sillanpää, Mika A.
Liu, Yulong
Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Optics
Frequency combs have revolutionized communication, metrology, and spectroscopy. Considerable efforts have been devoted to developing integrated combs, primarily leveraging Pockels or Kerr nonlinearities. Here, we demonstrate an alternative frequency comb generated via cavity Floquet engineering. By periodically modulating the cavity resonance frequency through a driven mechanical oscillator, a Floquet cavity with multiple equally spaced frequency components is created. These sidebands exhibit nearest-neighbor coupling and are phase-locked to the external modulation drive. A pump tone interacts with the pre-modulated cavity to generate the output frequency comb, which we implement in an on-chip microwave cavity optomechanical system. This approach operates independently of a pumping threshold and is insensitive to pump detuning. Consequently, it enables comb generation under far-sideband pumping with nanowatt-scale total power consumption, providing an ultra-low-power platform for integrated frequency comb synthesis.
title Pump-Threshold-Free Frequency Comb via Cavity Floquet Engineering
topic Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05877