Fluctuating nanomechanical system in a high finesse optical microcavity

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12813-12820

  Favero, Ivan ^a,b   Stapfner, Sebastian ^a   Hunger, David ^a   Paulitschke, Philipp ^a   Reichel, Jakob ^c   Lorenz, Heribert ^a   Weig, Eva M ^a   Karrai, Khaled ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COOLING SYSTEMS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MICROCAVITIES; NANORODS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

CAVITY QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; FABRY-PEROT MICROCAVITIES; NANOMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CAVITIES; OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES; OPTO-MECHANICS; SENSING APPLICATIONS; STATIC POSITIONS;

NANOSYSTEMS;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHYSICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHYSICS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 67749127547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012813     Document Type: Article

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