Robust Mechanical Squeezing beyond 3 dB in a Quadratically Coupled Optomechanical System

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 40, 1398 (2023)

Author	Affiliation
Priyankar Banerjee	Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam 781039, India
Sampreet Kalita	Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam 781039, India
Amarendra Kumar Sarma	Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam 781039, India

Contributing Part	PB	SK
Literature review	70%	30%
Idea and formulation	50%	50%
Derivations of expressions	80%	20%
Parameter sweeping	30%	70%
Illustrations and plots	30%	70%
Results and discussion	60%	40%
Manuscript preparation	60%	40%

About the Work

We demonstrate the dissipation-enabled generation of a strong mechanical squeezing in a cavity optomechanical system by periodically modulating the amplitude of a single-tone laser driving the system. The Bogoliubov mode of the quadratically-coupled mechanical oscillator cools down to its ground state due to optomechanical sideband cooling, which contributes to a strong squeezing exceeding the $3$ dB standard quantum limit. This sideband cooling mechanism is further optimized by numerically maximizing the ratio of the coupling sidebands. Then we look at the crucial role of the cavity mode dissipation in inducing an enhanced squeezing. We also verify our results with the analytical solution (under adiabatic approximation) and the exact numerical solution. Compared with previous setups, the quadratic coupling between the mechanical oscillator and the optical mode gives rise to a robust mechanical squeezing and a strong optomechanical entanglement even for a large thermal occupancy of the mechanical mode.

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Structure of the Repository

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├───data/
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│   │   ├───baz_xyz.npz
│   │   └───...
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├───notebooks/
│   ├───bar/
│   │   ├───baz.ipynb
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│───scripts/
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│   │   ├───baz.py
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├───systems/
│   ├───__init__.py
│   ├───Foo.py
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├───.gitignore
├───CHANGELOG.md
└───README.md

Here, foo represents the module or system and bar represents the version.

Installing Dependencies

All numerical data and plots are obtained using the Quantum Optomechanics Toolbox, an open-source Python framework to simulate optomechanical systems. Refer to the QOM toolbox documentation for the steps to install this libary.

Running the Scripts

To run the scripts, navigate inside the top-level directory, and execute:

python scripts/bar/baz.py