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Phonon lasers or coherent amplifications of mechanical oscillations are powerful tools for fundamental studies on coherent acoustics and hold potential for diverse applications, ranging from ultrasensitive force sensing to phononic information processing. Here, we propose the use of an optomechanical resonator coupled to a nonlinear optical resonator for directional phonon lasing. We find that by pumping the nonlinear optical resonator, directional optical squeezing can occur along the pump direction. As a result, we can achieve the directional mechanical gain using directional optical squeezing, thereby leading to nonreciprocal phonon lasing with a well-tunable directional power threshold. Our work proposes a feasible way to build nonreciprocal phonon lasers with various nonlinear optical media, which are important for a wide range of applications, such as directional acoustic amplifiers, invisible sound sensing or imaging, and one-way phononic networks.
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Hui Jing was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11935006), the Hunan Provincial Major Sci-Tech Program (Grant No. 2023ZJ1010), and the Science and Technology Innovation Program of Hunan Province (Grant No. 2020RC4047). Le-Man Kuang was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12247105, 12175060, and 11935006), and XJ-Lab Key Project (Grant No. 23XJ02001). Keyu Xia was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2019YFA0308704), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 92365107), and the Program for Innovative Talents and Teams in Jiangsu (Grant No. JSSCTD202138). Tian-Xiang Lu is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12205054), the Jiangxi Provincial Education Office Natural Science Fund Project (Grant No. GJJ211437), and the Ph.D. Research Foundation (Grant No. BSJJ202122). Xing Xiao was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12265004). Yan Wang was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12205256), and the Henan Provincial Science and Technology Research Project (Grant No. 232102221001).
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Lu, TX., Wang, Y., Xia, K. et al. Quantum squeezing induced nonreciprocal phonon laser. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 67, 260312 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-023-2340-7
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