Parametric generation of quadrature squeezing of mirrors in cavity optomechanics
- 18 March 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 83 (3)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.83.033820
Abstract
We propose a method to generate quadrature-squeezed states of a moving mirror in a Fabry-Perot cavity. This is achieved by exploiting the fact that when the cavity is driven by an external field with a large detuning, the moving mirror behaves as a parametric oscillator. We show that parametric resonance can be reached approximately by modulating the driving field amplitude at a frequency matching the frequency shift of the mirror. The parametric resonance leads to an efficient generation of squeezing, which is limited by the thermal noise of the environment.Keywords
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