Cavity optomechanics with a nonlinear photonic-crystal nanomembrane

Autor: Thomas Antoni, Rémy Braive, Antoine Heidmann, Isabelle Robert-Philip, Pierre-François Cohadon, Isabelle Sagnes, Tristan Briant, Aurélien Kuhn, Kevin Makles
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: AIP Conference Proceedings.
ISSN: 0094-243X
DOI: 10.1063/1.4903094
Popis: We have designed, fabricated and characterized a nanomembrane which could be used as a moving end mirror of a Fabry-Perot cavity. The high reflectivity and optimized mechanical properties of the membrane should allow us to demonstrate the mechanical ground state of the membrane. As any sub-micron mechanical resonator, our system demonstrates nonlinear dynamical effects. We characterize the mechanical response to a strong pump drive and observe a shift in the oscillation frequency and phase conjugation of the mechanical mode. Such nonlinear effects are expected to play a role in the quantum dynamics of the membrane as well.
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