Observation of strong coupling between a micromechanical resonator and an optical cavity field

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7256, 2009, Pages 724-727

  Gröblacher, Simon ^a,b   Hammerer, Klemens ^a,c   Vanner, Michael R ^a,b   Aspelmeyer, Markus ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACHINERY; MICROMECHANICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; DEVICE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON; ENERGY TRANSFER; MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NANODEVICE; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 68549111054     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08171     Document Type: Article

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