Thermal noise and optomechanical features in the emission of a membrane-coupled compound cavity laser diode
العنوان: | Thermal noise and optomechanical features in the emission of a membrane-coupled compound cavity laser diode |
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المؤلفون: | Alessandro Pitanti, Daniel Navarro-Urrios, Alessandro Tredicucci, Francesco Colangelo, Lorenzo Baldacci, Andrea Arcangeli, Luca Masini |
المساهمون: | Baldacci, Lorenzo, Pitanti, Alessandro, Masini, Luca, Arcangeli, Andrea, Colangelo, Francesco, Navarro Urrios, Daniel, Tredicucci, Alessandro |
المصدر: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya instname Scientific reports (Nature Publishing Group) 6 (2016). doi:10.1038/srep31489 info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Baldacci L.; Pitanti A.; Masini L.; Arcangeli A.; Colangelo F.; Navarro-Urrios D.; Tredicucci A./titolo:Thermal noise and optomechanical features in the emission of a membrane-coupled compound cavity laser diode/doi:10.1038%2Fsrep31489/rivista:Scientific reports (Nature Publishing Group)/anno:2016/pagina_da:/pagina_a:/intervallo_pagine:/volume:6 Dipòsit Digital de la UB Universidad de Barcelona Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Scientific Reports |
بيانات النشر: | Nature Publishing Group |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Spectrum analyzer, Materials science, self-mixing, FOS: Physical sciences, Physics::Optics, Optical power, Opto-mechanics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Opto-mechanics, self-mixing, laser diodes, Article, law.invention, Settore FIS/03 - Fisica della Materia, 010309 optics, laser diodes, law, Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall), 0103 physical sciences, Pressure, 010306 general physics, Materials làser, Optomechanics, Laser materials, Multidisciplinary, Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Laser diode, business.industry, Optics, Equipment Design, Models, Theoretical, Òptica, Laser, Photodiode, Optical cavity, Optoelectronics, Lasers, Semiconductor, Artifacts, business, Actuator, Opto-mechanic, Optics (physics.optics), Physics - Optics |
الوصف: | We demonstrate the use of a compound optical cavity as linear displacement detector, by measuring the thermal motion of a silicon nitride suspended membrane acting as the external mirror of a near-infrared Littrow laser diode. Fluctuations in the laser optical power induced by the membrane vibrations are collected by a photodiode integrated within the laser, and then measured with a spectrum analyzer. The dynamics of the membrane driven by a piezoelectric actuator is investigated as a function of air pressure and actuator displacement in a homodyne configuration. The high Q-factor (~3.4 · 104 at 8.3 · 10−3 mbar) of the fundamental mechanical mode at ~73 kHz guarantees a detection sensitivity high enough for direct measurement of thermal motion at room temperature (~87 pm RMS). The compound cavity system here introduced can be employed as a table-top, cost-effective linear displacement detector for cavity optomechanics. Furthermore, thanks to the strong optical nonlinearities of the laser compound cavity, these systems open new perspectives in the study of non-Markovian quantum properties at the mesoscale. |
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الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::1d793164f642606819132d8af306003bTest http://hdl.handle.net/2445/150156Test |
حقوق: | OPEN |
رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....1d793164f642606819132d8af306003b |
قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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