Surface-acoustic-wave-controlled optomechanically induced transparency in a hybrid piezo-optomechanical planar distributed Bragg-reflector-cavity system

Abstract: We propose a scheme that can generate tunable optomechanically induced transparency in a hybrid piezooptomechanical cavity system. The system is composed of a high-quality planar distributed Bragg reflector cavity modified with an embedded Gaussian-shaped defect. Moreover, interdigitated transducers are fabricated on the surface of the cavity to generate surface acoustic waves. Under the actuation of the surface acoustic wave, the upper Bragg mirrors can be vibrated as a bulk acoustic resonator, and the distributed Bragg reflector cavity becomes a standard three-level optomechanical system. In this situation, we show that when a strong pump optical field and a weak probe optical field are simultaneously applied to the hybrid optomechanical cavity system, optomechanically induced transparency occurs under the quantum interference between different energy-level pathways. Our scheme can be applied in the fields of optical switches and quantum information processing in solid-state quantum systems.