title: Optomechanical cooling with generalized interferometers.
abstract: The fields in multiple-pass interferometers, such as the Fabry-Pérot cavity, exhibit great sensitivity not only to the presence but also to the motion of any scattering object within the optical path. We consider the general case of an interferometer comprising an arbitrary configuration of generic beam splitters and calculate the velocity-dependent radiation field and the light force exerted on a moving scatterer. We find that a simple configuration, in which the scatterer interacts with an optical resonator from which it is spatially separated, can enhance the optomechanical friction by several orders of magnitude.
authors.affiliation: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom. andre.xuereb@soton.ac.uk
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Xuereb
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Freegarde
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Horak
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Domokos