# Optomechanical devices based on traveling-wave microresonators

## TL;DR

This paper explores the theoretical potential of traveling-wave microresonators for advanced quantum and non-reciprocal optomechanical applications, highlighting their robustness and experimental feasibility.

## Contribution

It introduces novel applications of degenerate modes in traveling-wave microresonators for entangled photon generation, non-reciprocity, and parity-time symmetry, with a focus on their robustness and experimental realization.

## Key findings

- Degenerate modes enable entangled photon generation with nonclassical features.
- Optical non-reciprocity is achieved via phase-controlled coherent coupling.
- Parity-time symmetry can be observed in deformed microresonators.

## Abstract

We theoretically study the unique applications of optomechanics based on traveling-wave microresonators, where the optomechanical coupling of degenerate modes can be enhanced selectively by optically pumping in different directions. We show that the unique features of degenerate optical modes can be applied to the entangled photon generation of clockwise and counter-clockwise optical modes, and the nonclassicality of entangled photon pair is discussed. The coherent coupling between the clockwise and counter-clockwise optical mods and two acoustic modes is also studied, in which the relative phase of the optomechanical couplings plays a key role in the optical non-reciprocity. The parity-time symmetry of acoustic modes can be observed in the slightly deformed microresonator with the interaction of forward and backward stimulated Brillouin Scattering in the triple-resonance system. In addition, the degenerate modes are in the decoherence-free subspace, which is robust against environmental noises. Based on parameters realized in recent experiments, these optomechanical devices should be readily achievable.