Nano-Optomechanics
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2016) | Viewed by 4786
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent progress in the study of nanoscale optomechanical systems has dramatically advanced our understanding of a wide range of phenomena while laying the foundation for future sensing and information processing technologies. These systems enhance the interaction between light and mechanical vibrations, and provide an interface for sensitively measuring and controlling the motion of mechanical resonators.
This progress has enabled a range of milestones experiments that have fueled significant excitement and growth within the field. For example, observation of quantum behaviour of mechanical objects, coherent exchange of energy between photonic and phononic degrees of freedom, and coupling between optical and electronic circuits using optomechanical elements all point to a rich future for quantum technologies with nanophotonic devices. Similarly, emerging “hybrid” technologies reliant on nanoscale optomechanical devices for connecting otherwise uncoupled physical systems promise to enable a wide range of future experiments. Sensing technologies are also poised to be impacted by nano-optomechanics, as researchers harness the quantum limited measurement precision made possible by these devices. These limits are constantly advancing as new regimes in mechanical behaviour are tested by systems incorporating levitated objects, interacting particles, 2D materials, superfluids, magnetic systems, and an ever growing list of semiconductor and dielectric materials.
This special issue aims to capture this diverse range of activity, encouraging and inspiring future discovery in this rapidly advancing field of nano-optomechanics.
Dr. Paul Barclay
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Optomechanics
- Cavity optomechanics
- Nanomechanics
- Nonlinear mechanics
- Particle levitation
- Quantum optomechanics
- Hybrid quantum systems
- Sensing and metrology
- Brillouin scattering
- Nonlinear optics
- Optical cooling
- Optomechanical signal processing
