Cross-Kerr effect on an optomechanical system

2015/11/30 by Wei Xiong, Da-Yu Jin, Yueyin Qiu +3 · 103 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies #Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Optics #Physics #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.93.023844

published in Physical Review A 93(2) (American Physical Society) · 7 pages, 4 figures

openalex publication_date 2016/02/26 · arxiv created 2016/03/03 · arxiv updated 2016/03/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We study the cross-Kerr (CK) effect on an optomechanical system driven by two-tone fields. We show that in the presence of the CK effect, a bistable behavior of the mean photon number in the cavity becomes more robust against the fluctuations of the frequency detuning between the cavity mode and the control field. The bistability can also be turned into a tristability within the experimentally accessible range of the system parameters. Also, we find that the symmetric profile of the optomechanically induced transparency is broken and the zero-absorption point is shifted in the presence of the CK effect. This shift can be used to measure the strength of the CK effect and the asymmetric absorption profiles can be employed to engineer a high quality factor of the cavity.

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