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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 8: Micromechanic oscillators II

Q 8.3: Talk

Monday, March 18, 2013, 14:30–14:45, F 142

Strong-coupling effects in dissipatively coupled optomechanical systems — •Talitha Weiss, Christoph Bruder, and Andreas Nunnenkamp — Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland

We study cavity optomechanical systems in which the position of a mechanical oscillator modulates both the resonance frequency (dispersive coupling) and the linewidth (dissipative coupling) of a cavity mode. Using a quantum noise approach we calculate the optical damping and the optically-induced frequency shift. We find that dissipatively coupled systems feature two parameter regions providing amplification and two parameter regions providing cooling. To investigate the strong-coupling regime, we solve the linearized equations of motion exactly and calculate the mechanical and optical spectra. In addition to signatures of normal-mode splitting that are similar to the case of purely dispersive coupling, the spectra contain a striking feature that we trace back to the Fano line shape of the force spectrum. Finally, we show that purely dissipative coupling can lead to optomechanically-induced transparency which will provide an experimentally convenient way to observe normal-mode splitting.