Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-4-2013
Abstract
Recent advances in micro- and nanofabrication techniques have led to corresponding improvement in the performance of optomechanical systems, which provide a promising avenue towards quantum-limited metrology and the study of quantum behavior in macroscopic mechanical objects. One major impediment to reaching the quantum regime is thermal excitation, which can be overcome for a sufficiently high mechanical quality factor Q. Here, we propose a method for increasing the effective Q of a mechanical resonator by stiffening it via the optical spring effect exhibited by linear optomechanical systems and show how the associated quantum-radiation-pressure noise can be evaded by sensing and feedback control. In a parameter regime that is attainable with current technology, this method allows for realistic quantum cavity optomechanics in a frequency band well below that which has been realized thus far. © 2013 American Physical Society.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Recommended Citation
Korth, W., Miao, H., Corbitt, T., Cole, G., Chen, Y., & Adhikari, R. (2013). Suppression of quantum-radiation-pressure noise in an optical spring. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 88 (3) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.88.033805