2021-05-27
Extremely Broadband Stochastic Resonance of Light and Enhanced Energy Harvesting Enabled by Memory Effects in the Nonlinear Response
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Phys. Rev. Lett. , Volume 126 - Issue 21 p. 213901: 1- 7
We report the first observation of non-Markovian stochastic resonance (SR), and we discover that memory effects in the nonlinearity extremely enlarge the SR bandwidth. Our experimental system is an oil-filled microcavity which, driven by a continuous wave laser, has memory in its nonlinear optical response. Modulating the cavity length while adding noise to the driving laser, we observe a peak in the transmitted signal-to-noise ratio as a function of the noise variance. Through simulations, we reproduce our observations and extrapolate that the SR bandwidth could be ∼3000 times larger in our cavity than in a Kerr-nonlinear cavity. Experiments evidencing this memory-enhanced bandwidth across two decades are presented. As an extension of our results, we numerically demonstrate an order-of-magnitude enhancement in energy harvesting thanks to a nonlinearity with memory.
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| American Physical Society (APS) | |
| Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) | |
| doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.126.213901 | |
| Phys. Rev. Lett. | |
| Organisation | Interacting Photons |
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Peters, K., Geng, Z., Malmir, K., Smith, J. M., & Rodriguez, S. (2021). Extremely Broadband Stochastic Resonance of Light and Enhanced Energy Harvesting Enabled by Memory Effects in the Nonlinear Response. Phys. Rev. Lett., 126(21), 213901: 1–7. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.126.213901 |
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