We present a novel method for opto-mechanical cooling of sub-wavelength sized nanomechanical resonators. Our scheme uses a high finesse Fabry-Perot cavity of small mode volume, within which the nanoresonator is acting as a position-dependant perturbation by scattering. In return, the back-action induced by the cavity affects the nanoresonator dynamics and can cool its fluctuations. We investigate such cavity cooling by scattering for a nanorod structure and predict that ground-state cooling is within reach.
@article{arxiv.0707.3117,
title = {Cavity cooling of a nanomechanical resonator by light scattering},
author = {Ivan Favero and Khaled Karrai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.3117},
year = {2009}
}