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Enhanced sensing of optomechanically induced nonlinearity by linewidth suppression and optical bistability in cavity-waveguide systems

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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 31, Issue 6, Pages 9236-9250

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Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.482075

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In this article, we study the enhanced sensing of optomechanically induced nonlinearity (OMIN) in a cavity-waveguide coupled system. By introducing weak waveguide-mediated coherent coupling, we find a strong bistable response of the cavity intensity to the OMIN near the cavity resonance. This enhanced sensitivity, measured by an enhancement factor, is resistant to cavity decay and fluctuations in the cavity-waveguide detuning.
We study the enhanced sensing of optomechanically induced nonlinearity (OMIN) in a cavity-waveguide coupled system. The Hamiltonian of the system is anti-PT symmetric, with the two involved cavities being dissipatively coupled via the waveguide. The anti-PT symmetry may break down when a weak waveguide-mediated coherent coupling is introduced. However, we find a strong bistable response of the cavity intensity to the OMIN near the cavity resonance, benefiting from linewidth suppression caused by the vacuum induced coherence. The joint effect of optical bistability and the linewidth suppression is inaccessible by the anti-PT symmetric system involving only dissipative coupling. Due to that, the sensitivity measured by an enhancement factor is greatly enhanced by two orders of magnitude compared to that for the anti-PT symmetric model. Moreover, the enhancement factor shows resistance to a reasonably large cavity decay and robustness to fluctuations in the cavity-waveguide detuning. Based on the integrated optomechanical cavity-waveguide systems, the scheme can be used for sensing different physical quantities related to the single-photon coupling strength and has potential applications in high-precision measurements with systems involving Kerr-type nonlinearity.

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