Optomechanical trapping and cooling of partially transparent mirrors
Abstract
We consider the radiative trapping and cooling of a partially transmitting mirror suspended inside an optical cavity, generalizing the case of a perfectly reflecting mirror previously considered [M. Bhattacharya and P. Meystre, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{99}, 073601 (2007)]. This configuration was recently used in an experiment to cool a nanometers-thick membrane [Thompson \textit{et al.}, arXiv:0707.1724v2, 2007]. The self-consistent cavity field modes of this system depend strongly on the position of the middle mirror, leading to important qualitative differences in the radiation pressure effects: in one case, the situation is similar that of a perfectly reflecting middle mirror, with only minor quantitative modifications. In addition, we also identify a range of mirror positions for which the radiation-mirror coupling becomes purely dispersive and the back-action effects that usually lead to cooling are absent, although the mirror can still be optically trapped. The existence of these two regimes leads us to propose a bichromatic scheme that optimizes the cooling and trapping of partially transmissive mirrors.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0708.4078,
title = {Optomechanical trapping and cooling of partially transparent mirrors},
author = {M. Bhattacharya and H. Uys and P. Meystre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.4078},
year = {2009}
}
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Submitted to Phys.Rev.A