Slot-Mode Optomechanical Crystals: A Versatile Platform for Multimode Optomechanics.

ABSTRACT: Cavity optomechanical systems are being studied for their potential in areas such as metrology, communications, and quantum information science. For a number of recently proposed applications in which multiple optical and mechanical modes interact, an outstanding challenge is to develop multimode architectures that allow flexibility in the optical and mechanical sub-system designs while maintaining the strong interactions that have been demonstrated in single-mode systems. To that end, we demonstrate slot-mode optomechanical crystals, devices in which photonic and phononic crystal nanobeams separated by a narrow slot are coupled via optomechanical interactions. These nanobeam pairs are patterned to confine a mechanical breathing mode at the center of one beam and a low-loss optical mode in

SUBMITTER: Grutter KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4722954 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature