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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0334-8
DOI :
10.1109/OMEMS.2011.6031098
