Ultrahigh-quality-factor micro-and nanomechanical resonators using dissipation dilution

NJ Engelsen, A Beccari, TJ Kippenberg - Nature Nanotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Mechanical resonators are widely used in sensors, transducers and optomechanical
systems, where mechanical dissipation sets the ultimate limit to performance. Over the past …

Nanomechanical dissipation and strain engineering

L Sementilli, E Romero… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nanomechanical resonators have applications in a wide variety of technologies ranging
from biochemical sensors to mobile communications, quantum computing, inertial sensing …

Evidence of surface loss as ubiquitous limiting damping mechanism in SiN micro-and nanomechanical resonators

LG Villanueva, S Schmid - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
Silicon nitride (SiN) micro-and nanomechanical resonators have attracted a lot of attention in
various research fields due to their exceptionally high quality factors (Q s). Despite their …

Sub-ppm nanomechanical absorption spectroscopy of silicon nitride

AT Land, M Dey Chowdhury, AR Agrawal… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Material absorption is a key limitation in nanophotonic systems; however, its characterization
is often obscured by scattering and diffraction. Here we show that nanomechanical …

Gravitational wave detectors with broadband high frequency sensitivity

MA Page, M Goryachev, H Miao, Y Chen, Y Ma… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Gravitational waves from the neutron star coalescence GW170817 were observed from the
inspiral, but not the high frequency postmerger nuclear matter motion. Optomechanical white …

Laser cooling a membrane-in-the-middle system close to the quantum ground state from room temperature

SA Saarinen, N Kralj, EC Langman, Y Tsaturyan… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Many protocols in quantum science and technology require initializing a system in a pure
quantum state. In the context of the motional state of massive resonators, this enables …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical dissipation by substrate–mode coupling in sin resonators

MHJ de Jong, MA ten Wolde, A Cupertino… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
State-of-the-art nanomechanical resonators are heralded as a central component for next-
generation clocks, filters, resonant sensors, and quantum technologies. To practically build …

Coherent optomechanical state transfer between disparate mechanical resonators

MJ Weaver, F Buters, F Luna, H Eerkens… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Systems of coupled mechanical resonators are useful for quantum information
processing and fundamental tests of physics. Direct coupling is only possible with …

Centimeter-scale suspended photonic crystal mirrors

JP Moura, RA Norte, J Guo, C Schäfermeier… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Demand for lightweight, highly reflective and mechanically compliant mirrors for optics
experiments has seen a significant surge. In this aspect, photonic crystal (PhC) membranes …

Asymmetry-based quantum backaction suppression in quadratic optomechanics

V Dumont, HK Lau, AA Clerk, JC Sankey - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
As the field of optomechanics advances, quadratic dispersive coupling (QDC) represents an
increasingly feasible path toward qualitatively new functionality. However, the leading QDC …