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Observation of Spontaneous Brillouin Cooling
Gaurav Bahl, Matthew Tomes, Florian Marquardt +1
While radiation-pressure cooling is well known, the Brillouin scattering of light from sound is considered an acousto-optical amplification-only process. It was suggested that cool…
Brillouin Cooling
Matthew Tomes, Florian Marquardt, Gaurav Bahl +1
We analyze how to exploit Brillouin scattering for the purpose of cooling opto-mechanical devices and present a quantum-mechanical theory for Brillouin cooling. Our analysis shows…
Surface optomechanics: Calculating optically excited acoustical whispering gallery modes in microspheres
John Zehnpfennig, Gaurav Bahl, Matthew Tomes +1
Stimulated Brillouin scattering recently allowed experimental excitation of surface acoustic resonances in micro-devices, enabling vibration at rates in the range of 50 MHz to 12 G…
Stimulated optomechanical excitation of surface acoustic waves in a microdevice
Gaurav Bahl, John Zehnpfennig, Matthew Tomes +1
Stimulated Brillouin interaction between sound and light, known to be the strongest optical nonlinearity common to all amorphous and crystalline dielectrics, has been widely studie…