Strong optomechanical squeezing of light

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Purdy, T P ^a   Yu, P L ^a   Peterson, R W ^a   Kampel, N S ^a   Regal, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL NOISE; MECHANICAL INTERACTIONS; MECHANICAL RESONANCE; MECHANICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL CAVITIES; RADIATION PRESSURE; SHOT-NOISE LEVEL; THERMALLY DRIVEN;

PHYSICS;

SQUEEZED LIGHT;

EID: 84893606331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.031012     Document Type: Article

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