Laser-rate-equation description of optomechanical oscillators

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Khurgin, J B ^a   Pruessner, M W ^b   Stievater, T H ^b   Rabinovich, W S ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT ACOUSTIC PHONONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MECHANICAL AMPLIFICATION; MICROSCOPIC MECHANISMS; OPTICAL PUMPS; OPTOMECHANICAL; PARAMETRIC INTERACTIONS; PHOTO-THERMAL; RADIATION PRESSURE; RATE EQUATIONS; SATURATION POWER; SELF-OSCILLATIONS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; STORED ENERGY;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

PHONONS;

EID: 84861801562     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.223904     Document Type: Article

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