Observation and characterization of an optical spring

By B. Sheard, M. Gray, C. Mow-Lowry, D. McClelland, S. Whitcomb. 2004

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Ocean Engineering

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Herre S. J. van der Zant
2. Menno Poot
3. Oskar J. Painter
4. O. Arcizet
5. Kerry J. Vahala
6. Darrick E. Chang
7. Qiang Lin
8. M. Eichenfield

In Ocean Engineering

1. Oskar J. Painter
2. Kerry J. Vahala
3. O. Arcizet

Citations in the corpus

• Optomechanics of deformable optical cavities (2009, background): “The prerequisite for self-cooling was first for the researchers to show that under the effect of optical back-action, deformable optical cavities displayed the expected optical control of rigidity and dampin”
• Coherent mixing of mechanical excitations in nano-optomechanical structures (2009, background): “In particular, the mechanical motion can be renormalized by the optical spring effect[22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30], creating a highly anistropic, intensity-dependent effective elastic modulus of the optomechanical structure.”
• Mechanical systems in the quantum regime (2011, background): “y frequency ωc, which in turn leads to a proportional change in radiation pressure. This thus changes the effective spring constant of the resonator to kR = k0 − ∂Frad/∂u; the so-called optical spring [224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 39, 229, 230]. Similar to displacement-proportionalfeedback this can cool ”
• Radiation-pressure cooling and optomechanical instability of a micromirror (2006, background): “These effects have already been directly observed [10], as well as the bistable behaviour of the cavity for a negative detuning [19].”