Optomechanical cooling of a macroscopic oscillator by homodyne feedback

Feb, 1998
9 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 80 (1998) 688
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Abstract:
We propose a simple optomechanical model in which a mechanical oscillator quadrature could be "cooled" well below its equilibrium temperature by applying a suitable feedback to drive the orthogonal quadrature by means of the homodyne current of the radiation field used to probe its position.
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