Double optomechanical transparency with direct mechanical interaction**Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61178021, 11474118, and 11204099) and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB921604).

Abstract

We present a mechanism for double transparency in an optomechanical system. This mechanism is based on the coupling of a moving cavity mirror to a second mechanical oscillator. Due to the purely mechanical coupling and the radiation pressure, three pathways are established for excitations of the probe photons into the cavity photons. Destructive interference occurs at two different frequencies, leading to double transparency to the probe field. It is the coupling strength between the mechanical oscillators that determines the locations of the transparency windows. Moreover, the normal splitting appears for the generated Stokes field and the four-wave mixing process is inhibited on resonance.