Optical monitoring and cooling of a micro-mechanical oscillator to the quantum limit

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5846, Issue , 2005, Pages 124-134

  Cohadon, Pierre François ^a   Arcizet, Olivier ^a   Briant, Tristan ^a   Heidmann, Antoine ^a   Pinard, Michel ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

Author keywords

Cold damping; Mechanical resonator; Quantum fluctuations; Quantum optics

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL);

COLD DAMPING; MECHANICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL MONITORING; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 28444482079     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.609402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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