An optical analog of quantum optomechanics

Abstract

We present a two-dimensional array of nearest-neighbor coupled waveguides that is the optical analog of a quantum optomechanical system. We show that the quantum model predicts the appearance of effective column isolation, diagonal-coupling and other non-trivial couplings in the two-dimensional photonic lattice under a standard approximation from ion-trap cavity electrodynamics. We provide an approximate impulse function for the case of effective column isolation and compare it with exact numerical propagation in the photonic lattice.

10 pages, 4 figures

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• Coherent Quantum Transport in Photonic Lattices
• Ermakov-Lewis symmetry in photonic lattices