Radiation-Pressure Effects

1. Stability and Dynamics in Fabry-Perot cavities due to combined photothermal and radiation-pressure effects Francesco Marino1, Maurizio De Rosa2, Francesco Marin3 1 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Firenze 2 CNR-INOA, Sezione di Napoli 3 Dip. di Fisica, Università di Firenze and LENS

2. Radiation-Pressure Effects Kerr Cavity: The optical path depends on the optical intensity (via refractive index)that depends on the optical path in the cavity Radiation-Pressure-driven cavity : Radiation pressure changes the cavity length, affecting the intracavity field and hence the radiation pressure itself MultiStability P. Meystre et al. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 2, 1830, (1985)

3. The Photothermal Effect • The intracavity field changes the temperature of the mirrors via residual • optical absorption • Cavity length variation through thermal expansion (Photothermal Effect) Experimental Characterization: P = Pm + P0sin( t) Typical thermal frequency Frequency Response of length variations M. Cerdonio et al. Phys. Rev. D, 63, 082003, (2001) M. De Rosa et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 237402, (2002)

4. Self-Oscillations: Physical Mechanism P P l l Interplay between radiation pressure and photothermal effect Optical injection on the long-wavelength side of the cavity resonance • The radiation pressure tends to increase the cavity lenght respect to the cold cavity value the intracavity optical power increases • The increased intracavity power slowly varies the temperature of mirrors  heating induces a decrease of the cavity length through • thermal expansion

5. Physical Model L(t) = Lrp(t) + Lth(t) We write the cavity lenght variations as Radiation Pressure Effect Limit of small displacements Damped oscillator forced by the intracavity optical power Photothermal Effect Single-pole approximation The temperature relaxes towards equilibrium at a rate  and Lth T Intracavity optical power Adiabatic approximation The optical field instantaneously follows the cavity length variations

6. Physical model The stability domains and dynamics depends on the type of steady states bifurcations Stationary solutions Depending on the parameters the system can have either one or three fixed points

7. Bistability Analyzing the cubic equation for   On this curve two new fixed points (one stable and the other unstable) are born in a saddle-node bifurcation Changes in the control parameters can produce abrupt jumps between the stable states Resonance condition 8 / 3 -8 / 3 The distance between the stable and the unstable state defines the local stability domain Stability domain width

8. Hopf Bifurcation Single steady state solution: Stability Analysis They admit nontrivial solutions K et for eigenvalues  given by Hopf Bifurcation: The steady state solution loses stability in correspondence of a critical value of 0 (other parameter are fixed) and a finite frequency limit cycle starts to grow Re  = 0 ; Im  = i 

9. Hopf Bifurcation Boundary Q = 1,  = 0.01, =4 Pin , =2.4 Pin For sufficiently high power the steady state solution loses stability in correspondence of a critical value of 0 Further incresing of 0 leads to the “inverse” bifurcation Linear stability analysis is valid in the vicinity of the bifurcations Far from the bifurcation ?

10. Relaxation oscillations  small  separation of the system evolution in two time scales: O(1) and O() We consider  = 0 and 1/Q »  Evolution of  is slow Fast Evolution Fixed Points () By linearization we find that the stability boundaries (F1,2) are given by C = -1

11. Relaxation oscillations Slow Evolution By means of the time-scale change  =  t and putting  = 0 Defines the branches of slow motion (Slow manifold) Fixed point, p If () > p  dt < 0 If () < p  dt > 0 G=0 At the critical points F1,2 the system istantaneously jumps

12. Numerical Results Temporal evolution of the  variable and corresponding phase-portrait as 0 is varied Q = 1 Far from resonance: Stationary behaviour In correspondence of 0c: Quasi-harmonic Hopf limit cycle Further change of 0: Relaxation oscillations, reverse sequence and a new stable steady state is reached

13. Numerical Results Temporal evolution of the  variable (in the relaxation oscillations regime) and corresponding phase-portrait as Q is incresed Q > 1 Q= 5 Q=10 Q=20 Relaxation oscillations with damped oscillations when jumps between the stable branches of the slow manifold occurs

14. Numerical Results The competition between Hopf-frequency and damping frequency leads to a period-doubling route to chaos Between the self-oscillation regime and the stable state  Chaotic spiking

15. Stability Domains: Oscillatory behaviour Stability domain in presence of the Hopf bifurcation Q » 1 For high Q is critical Stability domains for Q=1000, 10000,100000

16. Future Perspectives • Experiment on the interaction between radiation pressure and photothermal effect • The experimental data are affected by noise •  Theoretical study of noise effects in the detuning parameter • Time Delay Effects (the time taken for the field to adjust to its equilibrium value) •  Extend the model results to the case of gravitational wave detectors