Coupled Flexural Optomechanical Cavities with Engineered Nanomechanical Interconnects

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Original abstract

Integrated nanomechanical circuits require compact and predictable ways to read out, confine, and connect mechanical motion across multiple nanoscale elements. This challenge is particularly acute for megahertz flexural modes, whose large mechanical response and nonlinear dynamics are attractive for optomechanics, sensing, and signal processing, but whose extended nature makes local confinement and coupling difficult within dense devices. Here we demonstrate an optomechanical nanobeam platform in which optical transduction and mechanical connectivity are both engineered lithographically. Transverse geometric asymmetry in the photonic-crystal cavity breaks the cancellation that suppresses dispersive coupling to in-plane flexural motion, making these modes optically bright without ancillary structures. In parallel, serpentine mechanical links engineered through their complex band structure act as compact mirrors and evanescent couplers for MHz flexural waves. In coupled-cavity devices, the normal-mode splitting decays exponentially with the number of serpentine cells, yielding an experimental attenuation constant in quantitative agreement with full-system simulations. Geometry-dependent measurements further show that the coupling can be tuned by the interconnect design and identify regimes where finite-link modes hybridize with the cavity modes, beyond a simple two-resonator picture. These results establish complex-band-engineered mechanical links as calibrated interconnects for scalable optomechanical nanocircuits based on optically addressable MHz flexural resonators.

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