Optomechanically induced transparency.
Electromagnetically induced transparency is a quantum interference effect observed in atoms and molecules, in which the optical response of an atomic medium is controlled by an electromagnetic field. We demonstrated a form of induced transparency enabled by radiation-pressure coupling of an optical and a mechanical mode. A control optical beam tuned to a sideband transition of a micro-optomechanical system leads to destructive interference for the excitation of an intracavity probe field, inducing a tunable transparency window for the probe beam. Optomechanically induced transparency may be used for slowing and on-chip storage of light pulses via microfabricated optomechanical arrays.
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Stefan
S
Weis
Rémi
R
Rivière
Samuel
S
Deléglise
Emanuel
E
Gavartin
Olivier
O
Arcizet
Albert
A
Schliesser
Tobias J
TJ
Kippenberg