Regular Article

Optomechanically induced nonreciprocity based on mechanical driving

¹ College of Electronic Science, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, P.R. China
² School of Applied Sciences, Jilin Engineering Normal University, Changchun 130052, P.R. China
³ Jilin Engineering Laboratory for Quantum Information Technology, Changchun 130052, P.R. China

^a e-mail: 249648921@qq.com

Received: 18 August 2019
Received in final form: 22 September 2019
Published online: 29 October 2019

Abstract

Nonreciprocal devices are indispensable for providing highly desirable functionalities for optical circuitry. Here, we propose to take advantage of the interference between optomechanical interaction and mechanical driving to create optical nonreciprocal transmission in a double-cavity optomechanical system. We derived essential conditions for ideal optomechanically induced optical nonreciprocity and analysed properties of optical nonreciprocal transmission, especially in blue-detuned regime. These results can be used to control optical transmission in quantum information processing.