Suspended Mirrors: From Test Masses to Micromechanics
- Author(s)
- Pierre-Francois Cohadon, Roman Schnabel, Markus Aspelmeyer
- Abstract
Suspended mirrors are the most prominent model systems for optomechanical devices. During the last 10 years, microfabricated mirrors have dramatically increased the capability to exploit radiation-pressure effects on such structures. This chapter summarizes the current state-of-the-art in the performance of suspended (micro-)mirrors for cavity optomechanics experiments in terms of their optical and mechanical quality, and highlights some of the milestones experiments performed with suspended mirrors.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- External organisation(s)
- École Normale Supérieure, Paris , Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert Einstein Institut)
- Pages
- 57-81
- No. of pages
- 25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55312-7_4
- Publication date
- 2014
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103025 Quantum mechanics, 103026 Quantum optics
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/2d857a19-e1df-4a0c-8cf6-3d888d16f320