Cavity cooling of a microlever

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Summary

Direct experimental evidence for passive (or intrinsic) optical cooling of a micromechanical resonator is reported and cavity-induced photothermal pressure is exploited to quench the brownian vibrational fluctuations of a gold-coated silicon microlever from room temperature down to an effective temperature of 18 K.

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Published
2004-12-23
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Keywords

Radiation pressure, Photon, Brownian motion, Photothermal therapy, Superposition principle

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