Collective Dynamics in Optomechanical Arrays
Physical Review Letters, 107 (4):
043603+ (July 2011)DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.043603
Abstract
Optomechanical systems couple light stored inside an optical cavity to the motion of a mechanical mode. Recent experiments have demonstrated setups, such as photonic crystal structures, that in principle allow one to confine several optical and vibrational modes on a single chip. Here we start to investigate the collective nonlinear dynamics in arrays of coupled optomechanical cells. We show that such ” optomechanical arrays” can display synchronization, and that they can be described by an effective Kuramoto-type model.