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Optomechanical coupling in photonic crystal supported nanomechanical waveguides
W H P Pernice1, Mo Li, Hong X Tang
1Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Optics Express
|August 6, 2009
Abstract:
We report improved optomechanical properties of a nano-mechanical beam resonator embedded in an optical race-track resonator. Precise control of the mechanical resonator is achieved by clamping the beam between two low-loss photonic crystal waveguide couplers. The low insertion loss and the rigid mechanical support provided by the couplers yield both good mechanical and optical Q-factors for improved signal quality.

