Physical Review A

Strong mechanical squeezing and optomechanical entanglement in a dissipative double-cavity system via pump modulation

Wen-Jie Zhang, Yuchi Zhang, Qi Guo, A‐Peng Liu, Gang Li, Tiancai Zhang

Published Nov 2, 2021• 30 citations

Abstract

We consider a dissipative cavity optomechanical system which couples to an auxiliary cavity with a high-quality factor and is driven by an amplitude-modulated laser field. Due to the introduction of the auxiliary cavity, we find that the steady-state mechanical squeezing can be enhanced compared to the case without an auxiliary cavity and the so-called 3 dB limit can also be broken in the resolved-sideband regime. Moreover, the squeezing can also be achieved even in the unresolved-sideband regime. We study the optomechanical entanglement in the presented system. It is found that the enhanced entanglement can be obtained by introducing the auxiliary cavity, and the entanglement can also be generated in the unresolved-sideband regime for appropriate system parameters. Numerical results show that the presented schemes have strong robustness against the thermal noise acting on the mechanical mode.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.104.053506

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