Electrically controlled optical nonlinear effects in the hybrid opto-electromechanical system with the cross-Kerr effect

We theoretically study the nonlinear optical phenomena including optical stability state and four-wave mixing (FWM) process in a hybrid opto-electromechanical system with the cross-Kerr (CK) effect. The hybrid system consists of an optomechanical cavity in which the cross-Kerr (CK) effect and Coulomb interaction are simultaneously introduced by the CK medium and the mechanical resonator capacitively coupling to an external circuit, respectively. The CK interaction induces a tristability behavior of the mean intracavity photon number, which can be modulated by the strength of the CK effect and electrically controlled by the voltage on the capacitor. In addition, we give the effects of the optomechanical, CK, and Coulomb coupling strengths on the FWM of the output field. The results show that the voltage can be employed to electrically engineer the optical nonlinear phenomena. Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.

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In this study, we theoretically investigate the nonlinear optical phenomena including optical stability state and four-wave mixing process in a hybrid opto-electromechanical system with the cross-Kerr effect. The cross-Kerr interaction and the Coulomb coupling between the optomechanical cavity and the external circuit introduce a tristability behavior of the mean intracavity photon number, which can be electrically controlled by the voltage.