双腔光力学系统中输出光场纠缠特性的研究

腔光力学系统中的光辐射压力可以使系统中的各个子系统之间产生量子纠缠,最近在腔光力学系统中的量子纠缠引起了人们广泛的关注.本文研究了双腔光力系统中关于输出光场之间纠缠的性质,发现:此系统中力学振子的弛豫速率和滤波器带宽以及非相等耦合对输出光场之间纠缠的大小有着非常显著的影响,特别是在相等耦合条件下,输出光场中心频率与光腔本征频率近共振时,滤波器带宽对输出光场纠缠有着显著的抑制作用;但是如果采用非相等耦合,则可以有效抵制滤波器带宽对纠缠的抑制作用,使输出光场纠缠得到大幅提高.研究结果可应用在光力耦合系统中实现量子态转换、量子隐形传态等量子信息处理过程.     

原子辅助光力系统中快慢光的量子调控

随着纳米科技以及半导体技术的迅猛发展,光力诱导透明、快慢光和光存储以及其他在光力系统中发现的量子光学和非线性光学效应成为人们目前研究的热点.本文将薄膜腔光力系统同被束缚在腔中的二能级冷原子系综相耦合,通过直接在薄膜振子上引入弱辅助驱动场来研究该原子辅助光力系统中原子和相位对量子相干性质及其快慢光的调控.经过分析发现,通过改变辅助驱动场的强度可直接实现对光力诱导透明窗口深度的调控,通过改变辅助场与探测场之间的相位差,可实现输出的探测场在"吸收"、"透明"和"增益"之间相互转换,进而对弱探测场进行动态调控实现光开关.与此同时,还发现系统的群延迟时间随相位差的改变呈周期性变化.通过调节相位差及原子数,不但可以改变群延迟时间,还可实现快慢光之间的相互转换.     

腔光力学系统中的量子测量

腔光力学系统近年来迅猛发展, 在精密测量、量子传感等方面已展现出重要的应用价值. 特别是与微纳技术和冷原子技术结合后, 这一系统正发展成为研究量子测量与量子操控的理想平台. 本文首先综述腔光力学在量子测量, 尤其是量子测量基础理论研究方面的进展; 然后分析腔光力学系统中的量子测量原理; 最后介绍我们近来在这方面的研究进展, 并通过我们设计的一系列新颖的基于腔光力学系统的量子测量方案来具体展示该系统在量子测量、量子操控等方面的潜在应用.     

里德伯原子辅助光力系统的完美光力诱导透明及慢光效应

光力诱导透明是典型的量子相消干涉效应,在量子光学和量子信息处理当中具有广泛的应用.本文在里德伯原子系综镶嵌的复合光力学系统中考察了光力诱导透明现象以及由此产生的慢光效应.当考虑非旋转波近似的情况下,可以获得完美的光力诱导透明,即非常狭窄的理想透明窗口.在可分辨边带条件下,微腔品质越高,完美透明窗口中的慢光效应越明显.特别地,与其他原子相比,在实现超慢光方面里德伯原子的长寿命体现了其优越性.     

参量放大器腔中光力诱导透明与本征模劈裂性质

研究了在含有光学参量放大器的光力学腔中关于弱探测光的光力诱导透明与本征模劈裂的性质.研究发现,光学参量放大器的驱动场相位和非线性增益值的大小对光力诱导透明窗口宽度和本征模劈裂性质有非常重要的影响,特别是当控制光频率工作在光力学红边带下,通过适当调制相位和非线性增益可以实现比空腔时(没有光学参量放大器时)还狭窄的光力诱导透明窗口,此时伴随着陡峭的色散曲线.这些研究结果有利于在光力耦合系统中实现快慢光、光存储等量子信息处理过程.     

利用腔电光力系统提高罗兰C授时能力研究

罗兰C系统受原子钟以及经典无线电信号测量精度的影响,难以为用户提供高精度授时.提出了一种基于杂化微波-光纠缠的罗兰C系统授时方案,通过腔电光力转换器制备纠缠微波-光信号,并利用纠缠信号的二阶相干函数得到信号传播时间,根据授时时序关系修正用户本地钟时刻并完成授时.仿真分析了腔电光力转换器的参数对授时精度的影响.所提方案在理论上实现了对罗兰C系统授时精度的提高,在抗压制干扰、欺骗干扰等方面都具有一定优势.     

双拉盖尔-高斯腔光力系统中的腔内压缩冷却研究

机械振子的冷却是腔光力学研究的重要方向之一。计算光力噪声谱和稳态的最终声子数,对基于耦合光学参量放大器（OPA）的双拉盖尔-高斯腔光力系统中的腔内压缩冷却问题进行研究。在弱耦合条件下,利用微扰近似理论方法得出系统的光力噪声谱,基于费米黄金法则的理论计算出稳态下的最终声子数的解析表达式。利用入射泵浦光驱动腔场内耦合的OPA,使腔场内形成强烈的非线性压缩效应,量子反作用加热过程得到有效抑制,系统净冷却率得到显著提高。此外,讨论了其他系统参数对机械振子冷却的影响。最后研究了系统的稳态声子数,声子数可以在较大参数范围内小于1。该方案能有效地降低机械振子的冷却极限。     

量子微波制备方法与实验研究进展

量子微波信号既保留了经典微波信号的空间远距离传播能力,又具有非经典的量子特性,为微波频段量子通信、量子导航及量子雷达等基于大尺度动态空间环境无线传输的量子信息技术提供了可资利用的重要信号源.按照腔量子电动力学系统、超导电路量子电动力学系统和腔–光(电)–力学系统三大类型实验平台,归纳、分析了微波单光子、纠缠微波光子以及压缩微波场和纠缠微波场的产生原理、方法和相关典型实验的进展,并探讨了非经典微波场在量子导航等自由空间传输系统应用中需重点解决的若干关键问题.     

三机械薄膜腔光力系统相互作用的研究

本文主要研究了利用传输矩阵理论和共振透射条件详细地推导光腔中均匀放置三个机械薄膜构成的腔光力系统中系统本征模式随机械运动的色散关系.计算结果发现系统的光学本征模式由一组四个的本征能级构成,且不同的能级随不同的机械运动模式的变化曲线各不相同,进而导致不同光学模式与不同机械运动模式之间的耦合也不相同.此外,利用微扰理论求解了当机械运动振幅远小于腔模波长、机械振子处于平衡位置附近时,各种光学模式与不同机械振动模式间相互作用耦合强度的解析表达式.研究结果能够为理论和实验上研究多模腔光力系统提供一定的参考.     

混合腔光力系统的双光子散射

混合腔光力系统同时包含一次和二次光力相互作用。本文研究了混合腔光力系统中的双光子散射问题。在Wigner-Weisskopf框架下,通过求解散射过程,获得了混合腔光力系统散射态的解析表达式,揭示了双光子散射的4个物理过程：1)双光子均被直接反射,不进入腔中;2)一个光子被直接反射,另一个光子入射进腔中;3)两个光子按次序先后入射进腔中,但腔中最多只有一个光子;4)两个光子均入射进腔中。通过分析双光子散射谱,发现在该散射过程中可以产生双光子频率反关联,并且发现了混合腔光力系统中的参数与双光子散射谱特性之间的联系。该研究不仅提供了一种产生关联光子对的散射方法,而且提出了一种表征光力系统参数的光谱方法。     

Cavity optomechanics: Manipulating photons and phonons towards the single-photon strong coupling

Cavity optomechanical systems provide powerful platforms to manipulate photons and phonons, open potential applications for modern optical communications and precise measurements. With the refrigeration and ground-state cooling technologies, studies of cavity optomechanics are making significant progress towards the quantum regime including nonclassical state preparation, quantum state tomography, quantum information processing, and future quantum internet. With further research, it is found that abundant physical phenomena and important applications in both classical and quantum regimes appeal as they have a strong optomechanical nonlinearity, which essentially depends on the single-photon optomechanical coupling strength. Thus, engineering the optomechanical interactions and improving the single-photon optomechanical coupling strength become very important subjects. In this article, we first review several mechanisms,theoretically proposed for enhancing optomechanical coupling. Then, we review the experimental progresses on enhancing optomechanical coupling by optimizing its structure and fabrication process. Finally, we review how to use novel structures and materials to enhance the optomechanical coupling strength. The manipulations of the photons and phonons at the level of strong optomechanical coupling are also summarized.     

Review of cavity optomechanical cooling

Quantum manipulation of macroscopic mechanical systems is of great interest in both fundamental physics and ap- plications ranging from high-precision metrology to quantum information processing. For these purposes, a crucial step is to cool the mechanical system to its quantum ground state. In this review, we focus on the cavity optomechanical cooling, which exploits the cavity enhanced interaction between optical field and mechanical motion to reduce the thermal noise. Recent remarkable theoretical and experimental efforts in this field have taken a major step forward in preparing the mo- tional quantum ground state of mesoscopic mechanical systems. This review first describes the quantum theory of cavity optomechanical cooling, including quantum noise approach and covariance approach; then, the up-to-date experimental progresses are introduced. Finally, new cooling approaches are discussed along the directions of cooling in the strong coupling regime and cooling beyond the resolved sideband limit.     

Enhancing optomechanical force sensing via precooling and quantum noise cancellation

We theoretically investigate optomechanical force sensing via precooling and quantum noise cancellation in two coupled cavity optomechanical systems.We show that force sensing based on the reduction of noise can be used to dramatically enhance the force sensing and that the precooling process can eifectively improve the quantum noise cancellation.Specifically,we examine the effect of optomechanical cooling and noise reduction on the spectral density of the noise of the force measurement;these processes can significantly enhance the performance of optomechanical force sensing,and setting up the system in the resolved sideband regime can lead to an optimization of the cooling processes in a hybrid system.Such a scheme serves as a promising platform for quantum back-action-evading measurements of the motion and a framework for an optomechanical force sensor.     

Optomechanical sensing with on-chip microcavities

The coupling between optical and mechanical degrees of freedom has been of broad interest for a long time. However, it is only until recently, with the rapid development of optical mierocavity research, that we are able to manipulate and utilize this coupling process. When a high Q microeavity couples to a mechanical resonator, they can consolidate into an optomeehanieal system. Benefitting from the unique characteristics offered by optomeehanical coupling, this hybrid system has become a promising platform for ultrasensitive sensors to detect displacement, mass, force and acceleration. In this review, we introduce the basic physical concepts of cavity optomechanies, and describe some of the most typical experimental cavity optomechanical systems for sensing applications. Finally, we discuss the noise arising from various sources and show the potentiality of optomechanical sensing towards quantum-noise-limited detection.     

Review of cavity optomechanics in the weak-coupling regime: from linearization to intrinsic nonlinear interactions

Recently, cavity optomechanics has become a rapidly developing research field exploring the coupling between the optical field and mechanical oscillation. Cavity optomechanical systems were predicted to exhibit rich and nontrivial effects due to the nonlinear optomechanical interaction. However, most progress during the past years have focused on the linearization of the optomechanical interaction, which ignored the intrinsic nonlinear nature of the optomechanical coupling. Exploring nonlinear optomechanical interaction is of growing interest in both classical and quantum mechanisms, and nonlinear optomechanical interaction has emerged as an important new frontier in cavity optomechanics. It enables many applications ranging from single-photon sources to generation of nonclassical states. Here, we give a brief review of these developments and discuss some of the current challenges in this field.     

回音壁微腔光力系统的相干控制与完全相干透射

本文研究了两侧同时输入的回音壁模谐振双微腔光力系统中电磁诱导透明的相干调控.通过改变双微腔两侧探测场的强度比值及相位差,可以有效控制电磁诱导透明窗口的宽度和深度,对探测场的吸收和色散等性质实施显著的影响,并且能够在特殊频率处产生关于探测场的完全相干透射现象.     

Quantum coherence transfer between an optical cavity and mechanical resonators

This study highlights the theoretical investigation of quantum coherence in mechanical oscillators and its transfer between the cavity and mechanical modes of an optomechanical system comprising an optical cavity and two mechanical oscillators that,in this study, were simultaneously coupled to the optical cavity at different optomechanical coupling strengths. The quantum coherence transfer between the optical and mechanical modes is found to depend strongly on the relative magnitude of the two optomechanical couplings. The laser power, decay rates of the cavity and mechanical oscillators, environmental temperature, and frequency of the mechanical oscillator are observed to significantly influence the investigated quantum coherences. Moreover,quantum coherence generation in the optomechanical system is restricted by the system's stability condition, which helps sustain high and stable quantum coherence in the optomechanical system.     

Dynamics and entanglement of a membrane-in-the-middle optomechanical system in the extremely-large-amplitude regime

The study of optomechanical systems has attracted much attention, most of which are concentrated in the physics in the smallamplitude regime. While in this article, we focus on optomechanics in the extremely-large-amplitude regime and consider both classical and quantum dynamics. Firstly, we study classical dynamics in a membrane-in-the-middle optomechanical system in which a partially reflecting and flexible membrane is suspended inside an optical cavity. We show that the membrane can present self-sustained oscillations with limit cycles in the shape of sawtooth-edged ellipses and exhibit dynamical multistability. Then, we study the dynamics of the quantum fluctuations around the classical orbits. By using the logarithmic negativity, we calculate the evolution of the quantum entanglement between the optical cavity mode and the membrane during the mechanical oscillation. We show that there is some synchronism between the classical dynamical process and the evolution of the quantum entanglement.