Scaling behaviors in optomechanically induced nonlinear oscillation

A stable limit cycle as a stabilized mechanical oscillation is the primary result of the dynamical evolution of an optomechanical system under a sufficiently powerful pump. Because this dynamical process is highly nonlinear, it was not clear whether there exists a quantitative law to relate an evolved mechanical oscillation (the limit cycle of the dynamical process) to the given parameters of the fabricated system. Here, by means of the numerical simulations based on nonlinear dynamics, we demonstrate the existence of such quantitative relations that are generally valid to the nonlinear optomechanical processes. These quantitative relations can be summarized to a scaling law that is seemingly similar to those in phase transitions of many-body systems but has very different properties. Such a quantitative law enables one to find the more feasible system parameters for realizing the same or a similar dynamical evolution result, so it will be useful to the relevant experimental research.