Review of cavity optomechanics in the weak-coupling regime: from linearization to intrinsic nonlinear interactions  

作　　者：XIONG Hao SI LiuGang LV XinYou YANG XiaoXue WU Ying 

机构地区：[1]Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

出　　处：《Science China(Physics,Mechanics & Astronomy)》2015年第5期16-28,共13页中国科学：物理学、力学、天文学（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Fundamental Research Program of China(Grant No.2012CB922103);the National Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11375067,11275074,11374116,11204096 and 11405061);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities HUST(Grant No.2014QN193)

摘　　要：Recently, cavity optomechanics has become a rapidly developing research field exploring the coupling between the optical field and mechanical oscillation. Cavity optomechanical systems were predicted to exhibit rich and nontrivial effects due to the nonlinear optomechanical interaction. However, most progress during the past years have focused on the linearization of the optomechanical interaction, which ignored the intrinsic nonlinear nature of the optomechanical coupling. Exploring nonlinear optomechanical interaction is of growing interest in both classical and quantum mechanisms, and nonlinear optomechanical interaction has emerged as an important new frontier in cavity optomechanics. It enables many applications ranging from single-photon sources to generation of nonclassical states. Here, we give a brief review of these developments and discuss some of the current challenges in this field.Recently, cavity optomechanics has become a rapidly developing research field exploring the coupling between the optical field and mechanical oscillation. Cavity optomechanical systems were predicted to exhibit rich and nontrivial effects due to the nonlinear optomechanical interaction. However, most progress during the past years have focused on the linearization of the optomechanical interaction, which ignored the intrinsic nonlinear nature of the optomechanical coupling. Exploring nonlinear optomechanical inter- action is of growing interest in both classical and quantum mechanisms, and nonlinear optomechanical interaction has emerged as an important new frontier in cavity optomechanics. It enables many applications ranging from single-photon sources to generation of nonclassical states. Here, we give a brief review of these developments and discuss some of the current challenges in this field.

关 键 词：cavity optomechanics nonlinear interactions weak-coupling regime radiation pressure 

分 类 号：TH113.1[机械工程—机械设计及理论] TH74