Title :
Cooling of a micromechanical oscillator into the quantum regime
Author :
Weis, S. ; Rivière, R. ; Deléglise, S. ; Verhagen, E. ; Gavartin, E. ; Arcizet, O. ; Schliesser, A. ; Kippenberg, T.J.
Author_Institution :
Ecole Polytech. Federate de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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; microcavities; micromechanical resonators; oscillators; phonons; quantum optics; micromechanical oscillator; optical sideband cooling; phonon; quantum ground state; quantum regime; Cooling; Optical buffering; Optical coupling; Optical fibers; Optical resonators; Oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
