Optomechanics of deformable optical cavities

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 201-205

  Favero, Ivan ^a   Karrai, Khaled ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ATTOCUBE SYSTEMS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRY-PEROT RESONATORS; OPTICAL CAVITIES; OPTICAL ENERGY; OPTO-MECHANICS; QUANTUM LIMIT; RADIATION PRESSURE;

PHOTONICS;

DEFORMATION;

EID: 63849280693     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.42     Document Type: Article

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