Optomechanical non-reciprocity and its equivalence to antiresonance: Control of isolation frequency using mechanical drive

Abstract

We demonstrate that optomechanical non-reciprocity is equivalent to the anti-resonance, often discussed in the context of coupled driven harmonic oscillators. We show that that suitable phase-difference between the cavity driving fields make the relevant optomechanical couplings complex, which leads to non-reciprocity in the field fluctuations and anti-resonance in average field amplitudes. This analogy with anti-resonance demonstrates that only for a particular frequency (the so-called isolation frequency) of input signal, maximum non-reciprocity can be achieved. In contrast to the previous studies, we here show that one can dynamically control this isolation frequency by applying a mechanical drive of suitable frequency to the membrane in the optomechanical setup.