Master-slave locking of optomechanical oscillators over a long distance

Shreyas Y Shah; Mian Zhang; Richard Rand; Michal Lipson

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.113602

Master-slave locking of optomechanical oscillators over a long distance

Phys Rev Lett. 2015 Mar 20;114(11):113602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.113602. Epub 2015 Mar 17.

Authors

Shreyas Y Shah¹, Mian Zhang¹, Richard Rand^{2

3}, Michal Lipson^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
² Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
³ Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
⁴ Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.

PMID: 25839268
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.113602

Abstract

Frequency locking and other phenomena emerging from nonlinear interactions between mechanical oscillators are of scientific and technological importance. However, existing schemes to observe such behavior are not scalable over distance. We demonstrate a scheme to couple two independent mechanical oscillators, separated in frequency by 80 kHz and situated far from each other (3.2 km), via light. Using light as the coupling medium enables this scheme to have low loss and be extended over long distances. This scheme is reversible and can be generalized for arbitrary network configurations.