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Published April 2012 | Submitted + Published
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Ultrahigh-Q mechanical oscillators through optical trapping

Abstract

Rapid advances are being made toward optically cooling a single mode of a micro-mechanical system to its quantum ground state and observing the quantum behavior at macroscopic scales. Reaching this regime in room-temperature environments requires a stringent condition on the mechanical quality factor Q_m and frequency f_m, Q_m f_m ≳ k_BT_(bath)/h, which so far has been marginally satisfied only in a small number of systems. Here we propose and analyze a new class of systems that should enable one to obtain unprecedented Q-frequency products. The technique is based on the use of optical forces to 'trap' and stiffen the motion of a tethered mechanical structure, thereby freeing the resulting mechanical frequencies and decoherence rates from the underlying material properties.

Additional Information

© 2012 IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Received October 24 2011. Published April 2 2012. The authors thank Dal Wilson and Richard Norte for many helpful discussions. DEC acknowledges support from the NSF (grant no. PHY-0803371), the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Caltech's Center for the Physics of Information (CPI), and Fundació Privada Cellex Barcelona. KN acknowledges support from the CPI. HJK and OJP acknowledges support from the DARPA ORCHID program. HJK also acknowledges support from the NSF and DoD National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowships (NSSEFF) program.

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