Xingsheng Luan

Dynamic dissipative cooling of a mechanical resonator in strong coupling optomechanics.

Cooling of mesoscopic mechanical resonators represents a primary concern in cavity optomechanics. In this Letter, in the strong optomechanical coupling regime, we propose to dynamically control the cavity dissipation, which is able to significantly accelerate the cooling process while strongly suppressing the heating noise. Furthermore, the dynamic control is capable of overcoming quantum backaction and reducing the cooling limit by several orders of magnitude. The dynamic dissipation control provides new insights for tailoring the optomechanical interaction and offers the prospect of exploring mesoscopic quantum physics.

An integrated low phase noise radiation-pressure-driven optomechanical oscillator chipset.

High-quality frequency references are the cornerstones in position, navigation and timing applications of both scientific and commercial domains. Optomechanical oscillators, with direct coupling to continuous-wave light and non-material-limited f × Q product, are long regarded as a potential platform for frequency reference in radio-frequency-photonic architectures. However, one major challenge is the compatibility with standard CMOS fabrication processes while maintaining optomechanical high quality performance. Here we demonstrate the monolithic integration of photonic crystal optomechanical oscillators and on-chip high speed Ge detectors based on the silicon CMOS platform. With the generation of both high harmonics (up to 59th order) and subharmonics (down to 1/4), our chipset provides multiple frequency tones for applications in both frequency multipliers and dividers. The phase noise is measured down to −125 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset at ~400 μW dropped-in powers, one of the lowest noise optomechanical oscillators to date and in room-temperature and atmospheric non-vacuum operating conditions. These characteristics enable optomechanical oscillators as a frequency reference platform for radio-frequency-photonic information processing.

Coherent Polariton Dynamics in Coupled Highly Dissipative Cavities

Coherent light-matter interaction at the single photon and electronic qubit level promises the remarkable potential for nonclassical information processing. Against the efforts of improving the figure of merit of the cavities, here we demonstrate strong anharmonicity in the polariton dressed states via dark state resonances in a highly dissipative cavity. It is shown that vacuum Rabi oscillation occurs for a single quantum emitter inside a cavity even with bosonic decay-to-interaction rate ratio exceeding

Feedback and harmonic locking of slot-type optomechanical oscillators to external low-noise reference clocks

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Ground state cooling of mechanical motion through coupled cavity interactions in the unresolved sideband regime

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Vacuum Rabi oscillation in coupled highly-dissipative cavity quantum electrodynamics

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A fully integrated chip-scale optomechanical oscillator

cavity. Moreover, photon blockade is observable in such a highly-dissipative cavity quantum electrodynamics system. This study provides a promising platform for overcoming decoherence and advancing the coherent manipulation of polariton qubits.

Dynamic cooling of a mechanical resonator in the strong coupling regime

We demonstrate feedback and harmonic locking of chip-scale slot-type optomechanical oscillators to external low-noise reference clocks, with suppressed timing jitter by three orders of magnitude. The feedback and compensation techniques significantly reduce the close-to-carrier phase noise, especially within the locking bandwidth for the integral root-mean-square timing jitter. Harmonic locking via high-order carrier signals is also demonstrated with similar phase noise and integrated root-mean-square timing jitter reduction. The chip-scale optomechanical oscillators are tunable over an 80-kHz range by tracking the reference clock, with potential applications in tunable radio-frequency photonics platforms.

Coupled cavities for motional ground-state cooling and strong optomechanical coupling

We describe coupled-cavity scheme to achieve ground-state cooling of mechanical motion in highly-unresolved sideband regimes. Through EIT lineshapes, both quantum Langevin and master equations confirm the quantum noise characteristics and achieve κ/ω_m greater than 10⁴.

Subharmonics generation based on synchronization of self-pulsation and optomechanical oscillation in a monolithic silicon cavity

We demonstrate strong anharmonicity of the polariton dressed states in a highly dissipative cavity quantum electrodynamics system via dark state resonances. Vacuum Rabi oscillation and photon blockade occur even for decay-to-interaction rate ratio exceeding 100.