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posted on 2023-03-08, 17:00authored byRyan C. Ng, Paul Nizet, Daniel Navarro-Urrios, Guillermo Arregui, Marcus Albrechtsen, Pedro D. García, Søren Stobbe, Clivia M. Sotomayor-Torres, Guilhem Madiot
Phonons offer the possibility to connect the microwave and optical domains while being efficiently transduced with electronic and optical signals. Here, we present a multimodal optomechanical platform, consisting of a mechanical-optical-mechanical resonator configuration. The mechanical modes, with frequencies at 265 MHz and 6.8 GHz, can be simultaneously excited into a phonon lasing regime as supported by a stability analysis of the system. Both the MHz and the GHz modes enter a self-sustained oscillation regime, leading to the intermodulation of two frequency combs in the optical field. We characterize this platform experimentally, demonstrating previously unexplored dynamical regimes. These results suggest the possibility to control multiple mechanical degrees of freedom via a single optical mode, with implications in GHz phononic devices, signal processing, and optical comb sensing applications.
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