Pulsed laser cooling for cavity optomechanical resonators
- Author(s)
- Shai Machnes, Javier Cerrillo Moreno, Markus Aspelmeyer, Witlef Wieczorek, Martin B. Plenio, Alex Retzker
- Abstract
A pulsed cooling scheme for optomechanical systems is presented that is capable of cooling at much faster rates, shorter overall cooling times, and for a wider set of experimental scenarios than is possible by conventional methods. The proposed scheme can be implemented for both strongly and weakly coupled optomechanical systems in both weakly and highly dissipative cavities. We study analytically its underlying working mechanism, which is based on interferometric control of optomechanical interactions, and we demonstrate its efficiency with pulse sequences that are obtained by using methods from optimal control. The short time in which our scheme approaches the optomechanical ground state allows for a significant relaxation of current experimental constraints. Finally, the framework presented here can be used to create a rich variety of optomechanical interactions and hence offers a novel, readily available toolbox for fast optomechanical quantum control.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- External organisation(s)
- Universität Ulm, Imperial College London
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Volume
- 108
- No. of pages
- 5
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.153601
- Publication date
- 2012
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103026 Quantum optics, 103008 Experimental physics, 210006 Nanotechnology, 103025 Quantum mechanics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/325f8056-d908-496c-9874-1c6dee550833