Optical four-wave mixing and generation of squeezed light in an optomechanical cavity driven by a bichromatic field

Rafael Garcés; Germán J. de Valcárcel

doi:10.1117/12.2052565

1 May 2014 Optical four-wave mixing and generation of squeezed light in an optomechanical cavity driven by a bichromatic field

Rafael Garcés, Germán J. de Valcárcel

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Proceedings Volume 9136, Nonlinear Optics and Its Applications VIII; and Quantum Optics III; 91362C (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2052565
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2014, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

We show that an optomechanical cavity pumped by a bichromatic light beam can generate a signal whose frequency lies halfway between the two driving frequencies. This process can be understood as a degenerate four-wave mixing, in which two pump photons (one from each frequency) are combined to yield two identical signal photons. This process takes place between a lower and an upper threshold in terms of the pump intensity, which depend on the pump frequency difference. Close to the signal oscillation threshold a clear noise reduction in one of its quadratures is shown numerically.

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Rafael Garcés and Germán J. de Valcárcel "Optical four-wave mixing and generation of squeezed light in an optomechanical cavity driven by a bichromatic field", Proc. SPIE 9136, Nonlinear Optics and Its Applications VIII; and Quantum Optics III, 91362C (1 May 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2052565

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