Evanescent straight tapered-fiber coupling of ultra-high Q optomechanical micro-resonators in a low-vibration helium-4 exchange-gas cryostat

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Riviere R ^a,b   Arcizet, O ^c   Schliesser, A ^a,b   Kippenberg, T J ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENIC COOLING; CRYOGENIC REFRIGERATION; LOW TEMPERATURES; MECHANICAL SPECTRUM; MICRO RESONATORS; OPTICAL COUPLING EFFICIENCY; OPTO-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE;

CRYOGENICS; CRYOSTATS; HELIUM; MECHANICAL STABILITY; PROBES; RESONATORS; SILICA;

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EID: 84877275668     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4801456     Document Type: Article

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