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Fabrication and Testing of Microfluidic Optomechanical Oscillators

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Published on: May 29, 2014

Optomechanical crystals.

Matt Eichenfield¹, Jasper Chan, Ryan M Camacho

¹Thomas J. Watson Sr Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.

|October 20, 2009

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Researchers developed silicon optomechanical crystals, integrating photonic and phononic properties. These devices enable sensitive optical detection of mechanical vibrations and enhanced nonlinear optical interactions on a chip.

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Optics
Nanotechnology

Background:

Periodicity in materials leads to photonic crystals for light manipulation and phononic crystals for mechanical vibration control.
Simultaneous confinement of optical and mechanical modes in periodic structures enhances light-matter interactions.

Purpose of the Study:

To design, fabricate, and characterize planar optomechanical crystals on a silicon chip.
To achieve strong coupling between optical (photons) and mechanical (phonons) modes in a single device.

Main Methods:

Utilized silicon chip-based fabrication techniques.
Engineered periodic structures to co-localize terahertz photons and gigahertz phonons.

Main Results:

Demonstrated a planar optomechanical crystal capable of strongly coupling 200-terahertz photons and 2-gigahertz phonons.
Achieved near quantum-limited optical measurements of mechanical vibrations.

Conclusions:

Developed a silicon-chip-based platform for optomechanical crystals.
Enabled sensitive optical measurement of mechanical vibrations and strong nonlinear optical interactions in a scalable format.