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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 56: Optomechanics II

Q 56.5: Talk

Thursday, March 3, 2016, 15:30–15:45, f342

Optomechanics in the time domain — •Ralf Riedinger¹, Sungkun Hong¹, Alex Krause^2,3, Tim Blasius^2,3, Oskar Painter^2,3, Simon Gröblacher⁴, and Markus Aspelmeyer¹ — ¹Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria — ²Kavli Nanoscience Institute and Thomas J. Watson, Sr., Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institue of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA — ³Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA — ⁴Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

Optomechanical systems suffer from noise associated with continuous optical drives, e.g. absorption heating or parametric instabilities. Recently, it was proposed to use short optical pulses to circumvent these problems. Optical time domain probes can be used e.g. to realize quantum non-demolition measurements of mechanical positions. We report recent progress on time domain measurements on photonic crystal based mechanical resonators.