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Vibrations copying optical chaos

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Mechanical oscillation in a microtoroidal optical cavity transfers chaos from a pump to a probe laser beam with a different wavelength. Through stochastic resonance, the combination of noise and internal chaotic dynamics leads to amplification of optomechanically induced light self-oscillations.

In an optomechanical set-up (zoom-in on the optomechanical interaction in Fig. 1), it is known that a light beam that is blue-detuned with respect to the cavity resonance will release its energy to phonons at the frequency of the mechanical mode3. The light beam, therefore, self-amplifies the mechanical oscillations up to a point where the optomechanical oscillation overcomes the mechanical damping, hence resulting in an optomechanical oscillator. The transmitted light intensity is self-modulated at the frequency of the mechanical mode. When the intensity of the incoming light is further increased, the self-sustained oscillation bifurcates to more complex nonlinear dynamics including chaos4.

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Figure 1: Transfer of optical chaos from pump to probe laser beam through nonlinear interactions with a mechanical mode.
Figure 2: Stochastic resonance in an optomechanical system.

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