Optomechanical systems close to the conservative limit

2017

In dissipative optomechanical systems, the total damping hits negative values at the parametric instability point. This also corresponds to the phonon lasing threshold, where the mechanical resonator enters in the self-induced oscillations regime. This paper shows that the two mentioned phenomena are delayed from each other when the optomechanical systems operate close to their conservative limit, where the mechanical damping is very small. In fact, the total damping can be negative and very small for a while before the phonon lasing happens. As a result, the linearized theory is extended over the negative damping region where the mechanical displacements remain very small. It follows that …