Optically mediated hybridization between two mechanical modes.
In this Letter we study a system consisting of two nearly degenerate mechanical modes that couple to a single mode of an optical cavity. We show that this coupling leads to nearly complete (99.5%) hybridization of the two mechanical modes into a bright mode that experiences strong optomechanical interactions and a dark mode that experiences almost no optomechanical interactions. We use this hybridization to transfer energy between the mechanical modes with 40% efficiency.
Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
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Shkarin
Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
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Flowers-Jacobs
Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
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Hoch
Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
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Kashkanova
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS/UPMC-Paris 6/CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France.
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Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS/UPMC-Paris 6/CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France.
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Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA and Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
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