Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 54, Issue 2, 0219001(2025)
Optical Kerr Nonlinearity in Hybrid Nanomechanical Resonators System
Nanomechanical Resonators (NRs) not only process the motion characteristics of macroscopic mechanical resonators, while also exhibiting an ultra-small small scale and exceptionally high vibration frequency. By coupling NRs with other microstructures such as quantum dots and photonic crystals, many fascinating quantum optical effects will appear in such hybrid nanomechanical systems. The hybrid NR systems are exceptionally sensitive to small forces and can be driven by electric field, light fields, and other modalities, which attract significant research interest. In such hybrid systems, by changing the coupling between the nanomechanical resonator and other micro-structures, the frequencies of the NRs, and the strength of the driving field, the linear optical properties and nonlinear optical properties often change significantly. In this paper, the hybrid nanomechanical resonator system has been proposed. The system consists of two suspended NRs, one of which is embedded with a quantum dot. The NR systems coupled with quantum dots have received extensive attention, but there are few studies on the nonlinear optical properties of such systems. Our work mainly focuses on investigating the nonlinear optical properties of the hybrid system. Deriving the Hamiltonian for each component of the system, and use the Heisenberg equation to obtain the Langevin equation. Through the solution of above equations using semi-classical theory, the dimensionless linear susceptibility and nonlinear optical susceptibility of the system are calculated. The linear and nonlinear absorption and Kerr coefficient of the system under resonance and red detuning are studied by drawing a spectrum diagram based on the relationship between dimensionless linear susceptibility and nonlinear optical susceptibility and detuning. Finally, the optical characteristics of the system are discussed by adjusting the coupling strength, NRs frequency and Rabi frequencies.We studied the dimensionless linear susceptibility, and observed that two peaks appear at the abscissa
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Yi SUN, Huajun CHEN. Optical Kerr Nonlinearity in Hybrid Nanomechanical Resonators System[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2025, 54(2): 0219001
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Received: Jul. 31, 2024
Accepted: Sep. 24, 2024
Published Online: Mar. 25, 2025
The Author Email: CHEN Huajun (chenphysics@126.com)