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Fabrication and Testing of Microfluidic Optomechanical Oscillators
Published on: May 29, 2014
Master-slave locking of optomechanical oscillators over a long distance
Shreyas Y Shah1, Mian Zhang1, Richard Rand2,3
1School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
Abstract:
Frequency locking and other phenomena emerging from nonlinear interactions between mechanical oscillators are of scientific and technological importance. However, existing schemes to observe such behavior are not scalable over distance. We demonstrate a scheme to couple two independent mechanical oscillators, separated in frequency by 80 kHz and situated far from each other (3.2 km), via light. Using light as the coupling medium enables this scheme to have low loss and be extended over long distances. This scheme is reversible and can be generalized for arbitrary network configurations.
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