Floquet Phonon Lasing in Multimode Optomechanical Systems. 2021

Laura Mercadé, and Karl Pelka, and Roel Burgwal, and André Xuereb, and Alejandro Martínez, and Ewold Verhagen
Nanophotonics Technology Center, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain.

Dynamical radiation pressure effects in cavity optomechanical systems give rise to self-sustained oscillations or 'phonon lasing' behavior, producing stable oscillators up to GHz frequencies in nanoscale devices. Like in photonic lasers, phonon lasing normally occurs in a single mechanical mode. We show here that mode-locked, multimode phonon lasing can be established in a multimode optomechanical system through Floquet dynamics induced by a temporally modulated laser drive. We demonstrate this concept in a suitably engineered silicon photonic nanocavity coupled to multiple GHz-frequency mechanical modes. We find that the long-term frequency stability is significantly improved in the multimode lasing state as a result of the mode locking. These results provide a path toward highly stable ultracompact oscillators, pulsed phonon lasing, coherent waveform synthesis, and emergent many-mode phenomena in oscillator arrays.

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