2009/06/17 by C. A. Holmes, C A Holmes, Holmes, C A +3
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #FOS: Physical sciences #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Photonic and Optical Devices #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0906.3317
Submitted to the special issue of Fortschritte der Physik celebrating Paolo Tombesi's 70th birthday
arxiv created 2009/06/17 · openalex publication_date 2009/06/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We describe an opto-mechanical system in which the coupling between optical and mechanical degrees of freedom takes the form of a fully quantised third-order parametric interaction. Two physical realisations are proposed: a harmonically trapped atom in a standing wave and the `membrane in the middle' model. The dominant resonant interaction corresponds to a stimulated Raman process in which two phonons are converted into a single cavity photon. We show that this system can exhibit a stable limit cycle in which energy is periodically exchanged between optical and mechanical degrees of freedom. This is equivalently described as a parametric self-pulsing.