%0 Journal Article
%T Optically Mediated Hybridization Between Two Mechanical Modes
%A A. B. Shkarin
%A N. E. Flowers-Jacobs
%A S. W. Hoch
%A A. D. Kashkanova
%A C. Deutsch
%A J. Reichel
%A J. G. E. Harris
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.013602
%X In this paper we study a system consisting of two nearly degenerate mechanical modes that couple to a single mode of an optical cavity. We show that this coupling leads to nearly complete (99.5%) hybridization of the two mechanical modes into a bright mode that experiences strong optomechanical interactions and a dark mode that experiences almost no optomechanical interactions. We use this hybridization to transfer energy between the mechanical modes with 40% efficiency.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0613v2