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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 24: Nanomechanics
TT 24.2: Talk
Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 09:45–10:00, H 3005
Optomechanically Induced Transparency and Slow Microwaves in Circuit Nano-electromechanics — •Xiaoqing Zhou1,2, Fredrik Hocke3, Albert Schliesser1,2, Achim Marx3, Hans Hübl3, Rudolf Gross3,4, and Tobias J. Kippenberg1,2 — 1École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland — 2Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany — 3Walther-Meißner-Institut, Garching, Germany — 4Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
Using a low-mass (≈ 15 pg), high-Q (> 100 000) nanomechanical oscillator coupled to a Nb superconducting quarter wave cavity, we realize a circuit nano-electromechanical system coupling microwaves to mechanical motion oscillating at 1.45 MHz. By exciting the system on the lower motional sideband with a strong drive tone, a transparency window for a probe field is created originating from the effect of optomechanically induced transparency (OMIT) [1]. This phenomenon, analogous to electromagnetically induced transparency in Atomic Physics, arises from the interference of different excitation pathways for an intracavity probe field. We utilize the transparency window to demonstrate slow microwave propagation. A tunable delay up to 4 ms is demonstrated experimentally for a microwave pulse on resonance with the cavity. Furthermore, we systematically investigate the temporal dynamics of this transparency window when the drive tone is modulated, and the effect of the oscillator’s Duffing nonlinearity on the OMIT window.
[1] S.et al., Science 330, 1520 (2010)