Laser Cooling of a Micromechanical Membrane to the Quantum Backaction Limit

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Peterson, R W ^a   Purdy, T P ^a,b   Kampel, N S ^a   Andrews, R W ^a   Yu, P L ^a,c   Lehnert, K W ^a,b   Regal, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; GROUND STATE; MICROMECHANICAL RESONATORS; RESONATORS; SHOT NOISE; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

CAVITY LINEWIDTHS; GROUND STATE COOLING; MECHANICAL RESONATORS; NOISE FLUCTUATIONS; RADIATION PRESSURE; THERMAL COMPONENT; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS; VIBRATIONAL MOTIONS;

LASER COOLING;

EID: 84958069001     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.063601     Document Type: Article

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