Negative cavity photon spectral function in an optomechanical system with two parametrically-driven mechanical modes

TL;DR

This paper proposes a feasible optomechanical scheme with two modulated mechanical modes to achieve a negative cavity photon spectral function, enabling novel optical amplification and tunable filtering in cavity optomechanics.

Contribution

It introduces a method to realize negative CPSF using two parametrically-driven mechanical modes, expanding control over optomechanical gain and bandwidth.

Findings

Negative CPSF can be achieved in weak-coupling regimes.

Two mechanical modes offer enhanced controllability.

Negativity enables amplified optomechanically induced transparency.

Abstract

We propose an experimentally feasible optomechanical scheme to realize a negative cavity photon spectral function (CPSF) which is equivalent to a negative absorption. The system under consideration is an optomechanical system consisting of two mechanical (phononic) modes which are linearly coupled to a common cavity mode via the radiation pressure while parametrically driven through the coherent time-modulation of their spring coefficients. Using the equations of motion for the cavity retarded Green's function obtained in the framework of the generalized linear response theory, we show that in the red-detuned and weak-coupling regimes a frequency-dependent effective cavity damping rate (ECDR) corresponding to a negative CPSF can be realized by controlling the cooperativities and modulation parameters while the system still remains in the stable regime. Nevertheless, such a negativity which acts as an optomechanical gain never occurs in a standard (an unmodulated bare) cavity optomechanical system. Besides, we find that the presence of two modulated mechanical degrees of freedom provides more controllability over the magnitude and bandwidth of the negativity of CPSF, in comparison to the setup with a single modulated mechanical oscillator. Interestingly, the introduced negativity may open a new platform to realize an extraordinary (modified) optomechanically induced transparency (in which the input signal is amplified in the output) leading to a perfect tunable optomechanical filter with switchable bandwidth which can be used as an optical transistor.