Electromagnetically induced transparency and optical memories in an optomechanical system with $N$ membranes

Abstract: We study the propagation of a weak probe field through an optomechanical system in which $N$ nearly degenerate mechanical membranes are inside a Febry-Perot cavity, and couple dispersively to an intracavity field. We derive a general analytical expression for the output probe field. We show that the in-phase quadrature of the output probe field can exhibit multiple electromagnetically induced transparency with at most $N$ narrow transparency windows. We find that the superluminal light can be achieved with at most $N$ different negative group velocities at the transparency windows. Moreover, by using a time-dependent strong coupling pulse, we numerically simulate the storage and retrieval of a weak Gaussian-shaped probe pulse in an optical cavity with two nearly degenerate mechanical resonators.