Coherent control of an optical tweezer phonon laser

The creation and manipulation of coherence continues to capture the attention of scientists and engineers. The optical laser is a canonical example of a system that, in principle, exhibits complete coherence. Recent research has focused on the creation of coherent, laser-like states in other physica...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2024-04
Main Authors: Zhang, Kai, Xiao, Kewen, Luntz-Martin, Danika, Sun, Ping, Sharma, S, Bhattacharya, M, Vamivakas, A N
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coherence
Damping
Data processing
Focal plane
Lasers
Phonons
Quantum phenomena
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Summary:The creation and manipulation of coherence continues to capture the attention of scientists and engineers. The optical laser is a canonical example of a system that, in principle, exhibits complete coherence. Recent research has focused on the creation of coherent, laser-like states in other physical systems. The phonon laser is one example where it is possible to amplify self-sustained mechanical oscillations. A single mode phonon laser in a levitated optical tweezer has been demonstrated through appropriate balance of active feedback gain and damping. In this work, coherent control of the dynamics of an optical tweezer phonon laser is used to share coherence between its different modes of oscillation, creating a multimode phonon laser. The coupling of the modes is achieved by periodically rotating the asymmetric optical potential in the transverse focal plane of the trapping beam via trap laser polarization rotation. The presented theory and experiment demonstrate that coherence can be transferred across different modes of an optical tweezer phonon laser, and are a step toward using these systems for precision measurement and quantum information processing.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2404.10173