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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
