Rigorous simulation of nonlinear optomechanical coupling in micro- and nano-structured resonant cavities

A numerical method aimed to predict the optomechanical dynamics in micro- and nano-structured resonant cavities is introduced here. The rigorousness of it is ensured by exploiting the harmonic version of the transformation optics (TO) technique and by considering all the energy-transduction contribu...

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Main Authors: Matteo Stocchi, Davide Mencarelli, Yan Pennec, Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, Luca Pierantoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:International Journal of Optomechatronics
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15599612.2018.1459977
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Summary:A numerical method aimed to predict the optomechanical dynamics in micro- and nano-structured resonant cavities is introduced here. The rigorousness of it is ensured by exploiting the harmonic version of the transformation optics (TO) technique and by considering all the energy-transduction contributions of electrostriction, radiation pressure, photoelasticity and moving boundaries. Since our full-wave approach implements a multi-modal analysis and also considers material losses, from both a mechanical and an optical point of view, a considerable step further has been made in respect to the standard optomechanical perturbative theory. The efficiency and the versatility of the strategy are tested by analysing the optomechanical behaviour of a corrugated Si-based nanobeam and comparing numerical results to experimental ones from the literature.
ISSN:1559-9612
1559-9620