Enhancement of optomechanically induced sum sidebands using parametric interactions

Abstract

We theoretically study radiation pressure induced generation of the frequency components at the sum sideband in an optomechanical system containing an optical parametric amplifier (OPA). It is shown that an OPA inside a cavity can considerably enhance the amplitude of sum sideband even with low power input fields. We find a new matching condition for the upper sum sideband generation. The height and width of the new peak can be adjusted by the nonlinear gain of the OPA. Furthermore, the lower sum sideband generation can be enhanced with several orders of magnitude by tuning the nonlinear gain parameter and the phase of the field pumping the OPA. The enhanced sum sideband may have potential applications to the manipulation of light in an on-chip optomechanical device and the sensitive sensing for precision measurement in the weak optomechanical coupling regime.