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Optomechanics with Silicon Nanowires by Harnessing Confined Electromagnetic Modes

Recent paper in Nano Letters about the optomechanical coupling in nanowires. Here, we propose to exploit the optical resonances associated to the light confinement in subwavelength structures, efficiently extending optomechanics to nanoscale objects. We demonstrate this mechanism with suspended silicon nanowires. We are able to optically cool the mechanical vibration of the nanowires from room temperature to 30–40 K or to obtain regenerative mechanical oscillation with a frequency stability of about one part per million. The reported optomechanical phenomena can be exploited for developing cost-optimized mass sensors with sensitivities in the zeptogram range.


Source: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl204002u

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