High-sensitivity optical monitoring of a micromechanical resonator with a quantum-limited optomechanical sensor.
We experimentally demonstrate the high-sensitivity optical monitoring of a micromechanical resonator and its cooling by active control. Coating a low-loss mirror upon the resonator, we have built an optomechanical sensor based on a very high-finesse cavity (30 000). We have measured the thermal noise of the resonator with a quantum-limited sensitivity at the 10(-19) m/sqrt[Hz] level, and cooled the resonator down to 5 K by a cold-damping technique. Applications of our setup range from quantum optics experiments to the experimental demonstration of the quantum ground state of a macroscopic mechanical resonator.
Arcizet
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Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Case 74, 4 place Jussieu, F75252 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Cohadon
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Briant
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Pinard
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Heidmann
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Mackowski
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Michel
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Pinard
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Français
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Rousseau
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