Controlling mode orientations and frequencies in levitated cavity optomechanics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.09625v3
• Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 12:04:00 GMT
• Title: Controlling mode orientations and frequencies in levitated cavity optomechanics
• Authors: A. Pontin, H. Fu, J.H. Iacoponi, P.F. Barker and T.S. Monteiro
• Abstract summary: coherent-scattering (CS) set-up allows quantum ground state cooling of a levitated nanoparticles. We demonstrate experimentally that it is possible to strongly cavity cool and control the em unperturbed modes. Findings have implications for directional force sensing using CS set-ups.
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• Abstract: Cavity optomechanics offers quantum cooling, quantum control and measurement of small mechanical oscillators. However the optical backactions that underpin quantum control can significantly disturb the oscillator modes: mechanical frequencies are shifted by the optical spring effect and light-matter hybridisation in strong coupling regimes; mechanical modes hybridise with each other via the cavity mode. This is even more pertinent in the field of levitated optomechanics, where optical trapping fully determines the mechanical modes and their frequencies. Here, using the coherent-scattering (CS) set-up that allowed quantum ground state cooling of a levitated nanoparticle, we show that -- when trapping away from a node of the cavity standing wave -- the CS field opposes optical spring shifts and mechanical mode hybridisation. At an optimal cancellation point, independent of most experimental parameters, we demonstrate experimentally that it is possible to strongly cavity cool and control the {\em unperturbed} modes. Suppression of the cavity-induced mode hybridisation in the $x-y$ plane is quantified by measuring the $S_{xy}(\omega)$ correlation spectra which are seen to always be anti-correlated except at the cancellation point where they become uncorrelated. The findings have implications for directional force sensing using CS set-ups.

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