We present a dual-gate optical transistor based on a multimode optomechanical system, composed of three indirectly coupled cavities and an intermediate mechanical resonator pumped by a frequency-matched field. In this system, two cavities driven on the red mechanical sidebands are regarded as input/ouput gates/poles and the third one on the blue sideband as a basic/control gate/pole, while the resonator as the other basic/control gate/pole. As a nonreciprocal scheme, the significant unidirectional amplification can be resulted by controlling the two control gates/poles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe study the interference between different weak signals in a three-port optomechanical system, which is achieved by coupling three cavity modes to the same mechanical mode. If one cavity serves as a control port and is perturbed continuously by a control signal, nonreciprocal interference can be observed when another signal is injected upon different target ports. In particular, we exhibit frequency-independent perfect blockade induced by the completely destructive interference over the full frequency domain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe study the controllable optical response in a three-mode optomechanical system comprised of two indirectly coupled cavity modes and an intermediate mechanical mode. The two cavity modes are assumed to have different frequencies and driven by two control fields on the red and blue sidebands, respectively. When the system is perturbed by two probe fields satisfying the specific matching condition, a series of intriguing phenomena can be observed by adjusting phases and amplitudes of the control fields, such as absorption-amplification switching, ultra-narrow response windows, frequency-independent perfect reflection, and ultralong optical group delay.
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