title: Classical signature of ponderomotive squeezing in a suspended mirror resonator.
abstract: The radiation pressure coupling between a low-mass moving mirror and an incident light field has been experimentally studied in a high-finesse Fabry-Perot cavity. Using classical intensity noise in order to mimic radiation pressure quantum fluctuations, the physics of ponderomotive squeezing comes into play as a result of the opto-mechanical correlations between the field quadratures. The same scheme can be used to probe ponderomotive squeezing at the quantum level, thus opening new routes in quantum optics and high sensitivity measurement experiments.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, INFN Sezione di Firenze, and LENS, Via Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Marino
authors.forename: Francesco S
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Cataliotti
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Farsi
authors.forename: Mario Siciliani
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: de Cumis
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Marin