• DocumentCode
    3462249
  • Title

    Cavity optomechanics: Cooling of a micromechanical oscillator into the quantum regime

  • Author

    Deleglise, S. ; Weis, Sebastian ; Verhagen, Emanuela ; Gavartin, E. ; Riviere, R. ; Schliesser, A. ; Kippenberg, T.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol. (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    8-11 Aug. 2011
  • Firstpage
    31
  • Lastpage
    32
  • Abstract
    Using optical sideband cooling, a micromechanical oscillator is cooled to a phonon occupancy below 10 phonons, corresponding to a probability of finding it in its quantum ground state more than 10% of the time.
  • Keywords
    ground states; laser cooling; micro-optomechanical devices; oscillators; quantum optics; cavity optomechanics; micromechanical oscillator; optical sideband cooling; phonon occupancy; quantum ground state; Cooling; Optical buffering; Optical coupling; Optical fibers; Optical resonators; Oscillators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), 2011 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • ISSN
    2160-5033
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0334-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OMEMS.2011.6031098
  • Filename
    6031098
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3462249