Optomechanical laser cooling with mechanical modulations
arXiv:1412.4497 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.91.023818
Abstract
We theoretically study the laser cooling of cavity optomechanics when the mechanical resonance frequency and damping depend on time. In the regime of weak optomechanical coupling we extend the theory of laser cooling using an adiabatic approximation. We discuss the modifications of the cooling dynamics and compare it with numerical simulations in a wide range of modulation frequencies.
10 pages, 5 figures
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