Abstract
Optical nonreciprocity in a three-mode optomechanical system within a common optical reservoir is considered. It is found that optomechanically induced nonreciprocity is generated by the interference between the incoherent coupling induced by the common reservoir and the optomechanical coupling mediated by the interactions of two optical modes with a mechanical mode. There exist two symmetric nonreciprocal regimes that respectively correspond to the forward and backward photon transmissions, and the optical nonreciprocity for the relative phase $\varphi$ between the optomechanical couplings is in opposite direction to that for the phase $2\pi - \varphi$. Additionally, it is shown that the optimal nonreciprocity as well as the nonreciprocal amplification can be achieved only by adjusting the optomechanical couplings. To compare nonreciprocity induced by incoherent coupling with that in the case of coherent coupling, we consider the optomechanically induced nonreciprocity created by interference between the optomechanical and direct couplings between the two optical modes. The nonreciprocal behaviors and their differences in these two cases are explained by using analytic findings.
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