Pulsed excitation dynamics of an optomechanical crystal resonator near its quantum ground state of motion

Physical Review X

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Meenehan, Seán M ^a,b   Cohen, Justin D ^a,b   MacCabe, Gregory S ^a,b   Marsili, Francesco ^c   Shaw, Matthew D ^c   Painter, Oskar ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; GROUND STATE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHONONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRIGERATORS;

BASE TEMPERATURE; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; CRYSTAL CAVITIES; DILUTION REFRIGERATOR; OPTICAL HEATING; PULSED EXCITATION; PULSED OPTICAL EXCITATION; QUANTUM GROUND STATE;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 84951150979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.5.041002     Document Type: Article

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