Dresden 2011 – scientific programme
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ISS: Intersectional Sessions
ISS 1: Micro Mechanical Oscillator 1 (Q, TT)
ISS 1.8: Talk
Monday, March 14, 2011, 12:15–12:30, HSZ 02
Optomechanically Induced Transparency — •Stefan Weis1,2, Rémi Rivière2, Samuel Deléglise1,2, Emanuel Gavartin1, Olivier Arcizet3, Albert Schliesser1,2, and Tobias Kippenberg1,2 — 1Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland — 2Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, 85748 Garching, Germany — 3Institut Néel, 38042 Grenoble, France
Electromagnetically induced transparency is a quantum interference effect observed in atoms and molecules, in which the optical response of an atomic medium is controlled by an electromagnetic field. We demonstrate a form of induced transparency enabled by radiation-pressure coupling of an optical and a mechanical mode. A control optical beam tuned to a sideband transition of a micro-optomechanical system leads to destructive interference for the excitation of an intracavity probe field, inducing a tunable transparency window for the probe beam. Optomechanically induced transparency may be used for slowing and on-chip storage of light pulses via microfabricated optomechanical arrays.