Superradiance and collective gain in multimode optomechanics Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2014 American Physical Society. We present a description of a strongly driven multimode optomechanical system that shows the emergence of cooperative effects usually known from systems of atom-light interaction. Our calculations show that under application of a coherent pump field the system's response can be switched from a superradiant regime to a collective gain regime by varying the frequency detuning of the pump. In the superradiant regime, enhanced optical cooling of a single vibrational mode is possible, whereas the collective gain regime would potentially enable one to achieve almost thresholdless phonon laser action. The threshold pumping power scales as 1/N.

published proceedings

  • Physical Review A

altmetric score

  • 0.5

author list (cited authors)

  • Kipf, T., & Agarwal, G. S.

citation count

  • 33

complete list of authors

  • Kipf, T||Agarwal, GS

publication date

  • November 2014