• DocumentCode
    2236329
  • Title

    Mechanical trapping in a quadratically coupled optomechanical double disk

  • Author

    Hill, Jeffrey T. ; Lin, Qiang ; Rosenberg, Jessie ; Thomas, Oskar Painter

  • Author_Institution
    Labs. of Appl. Phys., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a novel approach for trapping mechanical motion and elastic tuning of mechanical rigidity while preserving phonon number, through a giant quadratic optomechanical coupling created from a tunable coupled microdisk resonator.
  • Keywords
    laser tuning; microdisc lasers; optical couplers; optical resonators; elastic tuning; giant quadratic optomechanical coupling; mechanical motion trapping; mechanical rigidity; phonon number; quadratically coupled optomechanical double disk; tunable coupled microdisk resonator; Cavity resonators; Couplings; Optical coupling; Optical signal processing; Photonics; Springs; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5950466