Phase-noise induced limitations on cooling and coherent evolution in optomechanical systems

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Rabl, P ^a,b,c   Aspelmeyer, M ^d,e  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy   (Austria)

^d ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY COOLING; COHERENT DYNAMICS; COHERENT TRANSFER; FLUCTUATING FORCES; HEATING MECHANISMS; INTENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; LASER LINE-WIDTH; LASER NOISE; LASER PHASE NOISE; MECHANICAL RESONATORS; OPTOMECHANICAL; OPTOMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; PHASE FLUCTUATION; SINGLE EXCITATION; STRONG-COUPLING; STRONG-COUPLING REGIME;

COOLING; LASERS; MIRRORS; PHASE NOISE;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 71849085153     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.063819     Document Type: Article

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