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Front. Phys., 29 March 2023

Sec. Optics and Photonics

Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2023.1149337

Sympathetic feedback cooling in the optomechanical system consisting of two coupled cantilevers

  • 1. School of Science, Hainan University, Haikou, China

  • 2. Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

  • 3. University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

  • 4. Graduate School of China Academy of Engineering Physics, Beijing, China

  • 5. Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, China

  • 6. Center for Theoretical Physics, Hainan University, Haikou, China

Abstract

We present sympathetic cooling in an optomechanical system consisting of two coupled cantilevers. The hybridization of the cantilevers creates a symmetric mode, which is feedback cooled, and an anti-symmetric mode not directly controllable by the feedback. The scheme of sympathetic cooling is adopted to cool the anti-symmetric mode indirectly by parametrically coupling to the feedback-cooled symmetric mode, from which the cooling power can be transferred. Experiment shows that the realization of coherent dynamics plays an essential role in sympathetic cooling, in which optimal cooling is achieved when the mechanical dissipation rate and the strength of coupling become comparable. The sympathetic cooling is improved by increasing the strength of mode coupling to enhance the transfer of cooling power. Also, the limit of sympathetic cooling imposed by the capacity of feedback cooling is reached as the effective temperatures of the two modes approach the strong coherent coupling condition. Our research provides the prospect of extending the cooling techniques to coupled mechanical resonators for a broad application in sensing and information processing.

1 Introduction

Cooling of the mechanical resonator is of great significance in improving the sensitivity of mechanical sensors [16] and a prerequisite for exploring the intriguing quantum phenomena at a macroscale [712]. Recent advances on cavity optomechanics that integrates the unique capacity on sensing and controlling mechanical motions have allowed cooling mechanical resonators of different types by means of either laser cooling [1316] or feedback control [1721]. For example, the scheme of measurement-based feedback has demonstrated the potential on realizing quantum control of a room-temperature mechanical resonator by developing a sensor capable of resolving the zero-point fluctuation at its thermal decoherence rate [2224]. With respect to the great successes on cooling of the mechanical resonator, significant efforts have been devoted to scaling up the system by connecting additional mechanical resonators for applications ranging from high-precision measurement [2527] to scalable phonon-based information processing devices [2831]. Nevertheless, cooling of coupled mechanical resonators remains a primary obstacle in scaling up the system because the hybridization of mechanical resonators typically creates mechanical modes with shapes that are not directly controllable. Examples include distant mechanical resonators that cannot be addressed by laser [32, 33], optomechanical mode that appears dark to the probe [34, 35], and mechanical modes with symmetries that can balance the actuation force [36].

The realization of cooling in the coupled mechanical resonators beyond that which can be directly cooled would require a controllable coupling between mechanical modes [3740]. The concept of sympathetic cooling has been achieved in systems such as trapped ions and atoms to cool degrees of freedom that are inaccessible to direct laser cooling [41, 42]. In micro- and nanomechanical systems, coherent coupling between mechanical modes of either distinct mechanical resonators or different modes of the same resonator have been achieved so far by optical [43, 44], electrical [45, 46], and elastic means [47]. Also, dynamical manipulation [4851], geometric control [52, 53], and topological transfer [54, 55] of mechanical motions have been demonstrated in coupled mechanical resonators. The ability in coherent transfer of motions between the mechanical resonator opens the possibility to sympathetic cooling in coupled mechanical resonators by transferring the cooling power to mechanical modes which is impossible for direct cooling.

In this paper, we present sympathetic feedback cooling in the optomechanical system consisting of two mechanical modes. The scheme of measurement-based feedback is implemented to cool one of the mechanical modes directly. Also, the mechanical mode, which is unable to be actuated by the feedback force due to the symmetry of its oscillation shape, is cooled sympathetically by coupling to the feedback-cooled mode. The coherent dynamics of the sympathetic feedback cooling is investigated by changing the strength of feedback cooling. Also, the strength of mode coupling is enhanced to improve the sympathetic cooling to the limit imposed by the capacity of feedback cooling.

2 Methods

The mechanical resonators used in our experiment are two elastically coupled cantilevers with dimensions of 200 μm in length, 10 μm in width, and 200 nm in thickness. As illustrated in Figure 1A, one of the cantilevers (cantilever 1) is inserted into a fiber-based cavity to form a membrane-in-the-middle optomechanical system, in which the cantilever is trapped by a 1,064 nm laser. Consequently, the resonant frequency of cantilever 1 becomes trap power P dependent with representing the strength of trapping, whereas the frequency of the other cantilever (cantilever 2) remains unaffected. In order to monitor the motion of the trapped cantilever, the cavity is pumped by an additional weak 1,310 nm probe, which couples linearly to the motion of cantilever 1. Because of the elastic coupling, the motions of the cantilevers are hybridized into two normal modes in Figure 1B. Specifically, with the frequencies of the cantilevers approaching (), an anti-crossing of the mechanical mode can be clearly observed at the trap power of with the anti-crossing gap . The complete mode hybridization at the avoided crossing point, , creates a symmetric mode () and an anti-symmetric mode () with the two cantilevers oscillating in parallel and opposite directions at the same amplitude, respectively. The frequencies of the symmetric and anti-symmetric modes are and , respectively.

FIGURE 1

The mechanical resonator is cooled at the anti-crossing point using the scheme of measurement-based feedback, in which a force proportional to the oscillation velocity is applied with representing the feedback gain. Although feedback control of different modes simultaneously is possible in its principle, direct feedback cooling of the two modes at the anti-crossing point is complicated as it requires to discriminate the two normal modes that are closely spaced in frequency domain. Here, rather than selectively controlling cantilever 1, we piezoelectrically actuate the whole chip, to which the two cantilevers are connected. Also, the displacement of the ith cantilever in the presence of the thermal Brownian force can be described bywhere J denotes the strength of elastic coupling, and the effective mass and the intrinsic damping rate of the two cantilevers are assumed to be nearly identical with and , respectively. Owing to the complete hybridization at the anti-crossing point, we find that the feedback force on the can be perfectly balanced. Consequently, in Figure 1C, only the symmetric mode is cold-damped when the feedback is activated, whereas the anti-symmetric mode remains nearly unaffected. The effective damping rate of the symmetric mode, , is measured to calibrate the feedback gain. In Figure 1D, the effective temperatures of each mode at different feedback gains are calculated by integrating the spectra in the vicinity of its resonant frequency. Note that measurement noises such as shot noise in the optical detection of mechanical displacement can be amplified by the feedback and influences the motion of mechanical resonator as feedback force noise. When the feedback gain is comparable to with signal-to-noise ratio in measuring the thermomechanical motion being in our case, the influence of measurement noises can become significant and impose a fundamental limit to measurement-based feedback cooling. For simplicity, the experiments in what follows are conducted at the feedback gain so that the influence of the measurement noise is negligible.

3 Results and discussion

In order to cool the anti-symmetric mode, a parametric pump is applied to couple the anti-symmetric mode to the feedback-cooled symmetric mode by modulating the trap power with and denoting the pump power and pump frequency, respectively. For a high-efficiency sympathetic cooling, the pump frequency is tuned to perfectly compensate the frequency offset between the two modes () so that the motions can be resonantly transferred between the two modes by the one-phonon process [49]. Here, by neglecting the contribution of higher-order processes in Equation (1), the motion of the normal mode in the presence of the sympathetic cooling with denoting the slow-varying complex amplitude of oscillation can be described bywith denoting the strength of parametric coupling [52]. Equation (2) confirms that only the symmetric mode can be cooled by the feedback in the absence of the parametric coupling (). As in Figure 2A, the sympathetic cooling is conducted at the pump power of . The strength of the parametric coupling which is defined by the normal-mode splitting without feedback cooling () is . In contrast to that without the parametric coupling, the resonance of the anti-symmetric mode is broadened by the feedback, implying that parametric coupling to the feedback-cooled symmetric mode provides an additional energy dissipation channel for the anti-symmetric mode. Also, the effective temperatures of the symmetric mode () and the anti-symmetric mode () are obtained by integrating the areas under the resonances of corresponding modes with

FIGURE 2

For a given parametric coupling strength , Eq. (3) indicates that the effective temperature of the anti-symmetric mode can reach its minimal value at the optimal feedback gain . The effective temperatures of the two modes at different feedback gains are plotted in Figure 2B. Indeed, the effective temperature of the anti-symmetric mode is reduced to approximately 30 K as the feedback gain reaches , at which the normal-mode splitting disappears as the effective damping rates of the normal modes becomes comparable to the strength of parametric coupling. The disappearance of the normal-mode splitting indicates a transition from strong to weak parametric coupling between the two modes. By increasing the feedback gain further, the effective temperature of the anti-symmetric mode starts to rise although the symmetric mode can be cooled continuously.

The dependence of the optimal feedback gain on the parametric coupling strength reveals that the coherent dynamics plays an essential role in transferring the cooling power between the parametrically coupled modes. The real-time dynamics of the motion transduction is investigated by initializing the system through resonantly actuating the anti-symmetric mode to an oscillation amplitude of approximately 50 nm. After the initialization, the parametric pump with is applied immediately to couple the anti-symmetric mode to the feedback-cooled symmetric mode. In Figures 2C,D, the oscillation amplitudes of the two modes are recorded in the duration that the parametric pump is applied. At the feedback gain , the motions on the two modes can be coherently exchanged through the Rabi-like oscillation at the frequency of 4.3 Hz, which is in good agreement with the normal-mode splitting observed in Figure 2A. However, when the feedback gain exceeds , the mechanical motions can no longer be coherently exchanged between the two modes before decaying out, confirming that the two modes are weakly coupled. Also, in the weak coupling regime, it is interesting that the energy dissipation rate for the anti-symmetric mode decreases as the feedback gain increases although the symmetric mode can be further damped. Such difference reflects that the stronger feedback cooling of the symmetric mode is counterbalanced by a weaker energy transduction, which leads to the optimal sympathetic cooling of anti-symmetric mode observed in Figure 2B.

We demonstrate that sympathetic cooling can be improved by increasing the strength of parametric coupling to enhance the transfer of cooling power. The strength of parametric coupling for each pump power is calibrated at by measuring the normal-mode splitting with . As in Figure 3A, the anti-symmetric mode is sympathetically cooled by parametrically coupling to the symmetric mode, which is feedback-cooled at a fixed gain . It shows that the sympathetic cooling can be improved obviously by turning up the parametric pump. As the pump power beyond , a strong parametric coupling between the anti-symmetric mode and the feedback-cooled symmetric mode is achieved, which creates a clear normal-mode splitting. The effective temperatures of the two modes at different parametric coupling strengths are plotted in Figure 3B. The transfer of cooling power between the two modes reduces the effective temperature of the anti-symmetric mode at the expense of heating up the symmetric mode at the mean time. Also, the limit of the sympathetic cooling imposed by the cooling capacity of feedback is reached as the effective temperatures of the two modes approaching at the condition of strong parametric pump (). In our experiment, sympathetic cooling of the anti-symmetric mode close to the limit with is achieved at the pump power of with the effective temperature of the feedback-cooled symmetric mode rising from 15 K to 25 K.

FIGURE 3

4 Conclusion

In summary, we have presented sympathetic feedback cooling of elastically coupled mechanical resonators in an optomechanical system, which allows for sensing and coherent controlling of mechanical motions simultaneously. The complete hybridization between cantilevers creates two normal modes with the cantilevers oscillating symmetrically and anti-symmetrically. In order to cool the anti-symmetric mode that is beyond direct control due to its oscillation shape, a parametric pump is applied to resonantly couple the two modes. As a result, when the symmetric mode is feedback cooled, the cooling power can be transferred to the anti-symmetric mode. We demonstrate that the coherent dynamics plays an essential role in sympathetic cooling with an optimal cooling achieved when the mechanical dissipation becomes comparable to the strength of parametric coupling. The sympathetic cooling is improved by increasing the strength of parametric coupling to enhance the transfer of cooling power. Also, sympathetic cooling of the anti-symmetric mode to the limit imposed by the capacity of feedback is achieved when the effective temperatures of the two modes approach.

Although the sympathetic cooling of the anti-symmetric mode, which has been widely adopted in mechanical sensors for its resilience to vibration noises [36, 5658], is demonstrated in our experiment, the scheme can be generally extended to coupled mechanical resonator array to transfer cooling power to distant mechanical resonators that are inaccessible by direct cooling. Also, significant improvement on the limit of sympathetic cooling can be expected under the condition of deep feedback cooling, in which the measurement noises, such as shot noise and photodetector noise, should be taken into account. With respect to the great advances on the measurement-based feedback control, our research on sympathetic feedback cooling provides a feasible scheme to cool coupled mechanical resonators for scalable phonon information processing.

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Author contributions

HF and Z-CG designed and conceived the experiment. C-YS, Z-CG, and QY carried out the measurements. C-YS proceeded and analyzed the experimental data. YL provided theoretical support. HF and YL wrote the paper. C-PS and HF supervised the project. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.

Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos. U2130117, 12074030, 12274107, U1930403, U1930402, and 12088101), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (grant no. 2020CFB830), and the Research Funds of Hainan University [grant no. KYQD (ZR) 22170].

Acknowledgments

Z-CG gratefully acknowledges the helpful discussion with Jie-qiao Liao at Hunan Normal University.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Summary

Keywords

sympathetic cooling, optomechanical system, coupled mechanical resonators, coherent coupling, feedback control

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Gong Z-C, Shen C-Y, Yuan Q, Sun C-P, Li Y and Fu H (2023) Sympathetic feedback cooling in the optomechanical system consisting of two coupled cantilevers. Front. Phys. 11:1149337. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2023.1149337

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21 January 2023

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13 March 2023

Published

29 March 2023

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11 - 2023

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Zhangqi Yin, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

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Keyu Xia, Nanjing University, China

Jiteng Sheng, East China Normal University, China

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*Correspondence: Hao Fu,

†These authors contributed equally to this work

This article was submitted to Optics and Photonics, a section of the journal Frontiers in Physics

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