Response of a mechanical oscillator in an optomechanical cavity driven by a finite bandwidth squeezed vacuum excitation

TL;DR

This paper theoretically explores how finite bandwidth squeezed vacuum light influences the displacement and momentum fluctuations of a movable mirror in an optomechanical cavity, revealing unique spectral features and conditions for optimal mechanical squeezing.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of finite bandwidth squeezed vacuum effects on optomechanical systems, highlighting novel spectral structures and mechanisms for controlling mechanical squeezing.

Findings

Spectra exhibit three- and four-peaked structures for DPO and NDPO squeezed vacuum.

Spectral features like pimple, hole burning, and dispersive profiles are highly sensitive to squeezing parameters.

Optimal mechanical squeezing is achievable with finite bandwidth squeezed vacuum, influenced by squeezing intensity and phase.

Abstract

In this paper, we theoretically investigate the displacement and momentum fluctuations spectra of the movable mirror in a standard optomechanical system driven by a finite bandwidth squeezed vacuum light accompanying a coherent laser field. Two cases in which the squeezed vacuum is generated by degenerated and non-degenerate parametric oscillators (DPO and NDPO) are considered. We find that for the case of finite bandwidth squeezed vacuum injection, the two spectra exhibit unique features, which strongly differ from those of broadband squeezing excitation. In particular, the spectra exhibit a three-peaked and a four-peaked structure, respectively, for the squeezing injection from DPO and NDPO. Besides, some anomalous characteristics of the spectra such as squeezing-induced pimple, hole burning, and dispersive profile are found to be highly sensitive to the squeezing parameters and the temperature of the mirror. We also evaluate the mean-square fluctuations in position and momentum quadratures of the movable mirror and analyze the influence of the squeezing parameters of the input field on the mechanical squeezing. It will be shown that the parameters of driven squeezed vacuum affects the squeezing. We find the optimal mechanical squeezing is achievable via finite bandwidth squeezed vacuum injection which is affected by the intensity of squeezed vacuum. We also show that the phase of incident squeezed vacuum determines whether position or momentum squeezing occurs. Our proposed scheme not only provides a feasible experimental method to detect and characterize squeezed light by optomechanical systems, but also suggests a way for controllable transfer of squeezing from an optical field to a mechanical oscillator.