[EN] Recent years have witnessed the boom of cavity optomechanics, which exploits the confinement and coupling of optical and mechanical waves at the nanoscale. Among their physical implementations, optomechanical (OM) ...
[EN] We report a novel injection scheme that allows for phonon lasing in a one-dimensional optomechanical photonic crystal, in a sideband unresolved regime and with cooperativity values as low as 10-2. It extracts energy ...
[EN] We theoretically investigate phonon-photon interaction in cavities created in a phoxonic crystal slab constituted by a two-dimensional (2D) square array of holes in a silicon membrane. The structure without defects ...
[EN] The interaction of light and sound waves at the micro and nanoscale has attracted considerable interest in recent years. The main reason is that this interaction is responsible for a wide variety of intriguing physical ...
[EN] Silicon on insulator photonics has offered a versatile platform for the recent development of integrated optomechanical circuits. However, there are some constraints such as the high cost of the wafers and limitation ...
Maire, Jeremie; Arregui, Guillermo; Capuj, Nestor E.; Colombano, Martín F.; Griol Barres, Amadeu; Martínez, Alejandro; Sotomayor-Torres, Clivia M.; Navarro-Urrios, Daniel(American Institute of Physics, 2018-12)
[EN] Optomechanical (OM) structures are well suited to study photon-phonon interactions, and they also turn out to be potential building blocks for phononic circuits and quantum computing. In phononic circuits, in which ...
[EN] Optomechanical interaction in optical dielectric cavities can be used to generate high-purity microwave tones, giving
rise to optomechanical microwave oscillators. Here, we introduce the main properties of these ...
[EN] Nanocrystalline materials exhibit properties that can differ substantially from those of their single crystal counterparts. As such, they provide ways to enhance and optimize their functionality for devices and ...
[EN] Nanoelectro-opto-mechanical systems enable the synergistic coexistence of electrical, mechanical, and optical signals on a chip to realize new functions. Most of the technology platforms proposed for the fabrication ...