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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 48: Optomechanics I
Q 48.2: Talk
Thursday, March 26, 2015, 11:15–11:30, P/H1
Stochastic dynamics of optomechanical oscillator arrays — •Roland Lauter1,2, Steven Habraken1, Aditi Mitra3, and Florian Marquardt1,2 — 1Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstraße 7, 91058 Erlangen — 2Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Günther-Scharowsky-Str. 1/Bau 24, 91058 Erlangen — 3Department of Physics, New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003
We consider arrays of coupled optomechanical cells, each of which consists of a laser-driven optical mode interacting with a mechanical (vibrational) mode. The mechanical modes can settle into stable finite-amplitude oscillations. We study the collective classical nonlinear dynamics of the phases of these oscillators, which is described by a certain extension of the well-known Kuramoto model. When including noise in our model, we find connections to the physics of surface growth. Besides, in two-dimensional arrays, we find that spiral structures and their dynamics play an important role.