Resolved-sideband and cryogenic cooling of an optomechanical resonator

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 489-493

  Park, Young Shin ^a   Wang, Hailin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; LASER COOLING; OPTOMECHANICS; OSCILLISTORS; RESONATORS; SILICA; TRAPPED IONS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; GROUND STATE COOLING; MECHANICAL OSCILLATIONS; MECHANICAL OSCILLATORS; OPTO-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; QUANTUM GROUND STATE; SILICA MICROSPHERES; ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION;

GROUND STATE;

EID: 67650945026     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1303     Document Type: Article

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