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Extremely Broadband Stochastic Resonance of Light and Enhanced Energy Harvesting Enabled by Memory Effects in the Nonlinear Response

K. J. H. Peters1, Z. Geng1, K. Malmir2, J. M. Smith2, and S. R. K. Rodriguez1,*

  • 1Center for Nanophotonics, AMOLF, Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, United Kingdom

  • *s.rodriguez@amolf.nl
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 213901 – Published 27 May, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.213901

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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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Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 213901– Published 27 May, 2021
  • Received 26 August 2020
  • Accepted 4 May 2021
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