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Coupling a superconducting quantum circuit to a phononic crystal defect cavity
Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola, E. Alex Wollack, Marek Pechal +3
Connecting nanoscale mechanical resonators to microwave quantum circuits opens new avenues for storing, processing, and transmitting quantum information. In this work, we couple a…
A single-mode phononic wire
Rishi N. Patel, Zhaoyou Wang, Wentao Jiang +3
Photons and electrons transmit information to form complex systems and networks. Phonons on the other hand, the quanta of mechanical motion, are often considered only as carriers o…
Engineering phonon leakage in nanomechanical resonators
Rishi N. Patel, Christopher J. Sarabalis, Wentao Jiang +2
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a technique for coupling phonons out of an optomechanical crystal cavity. By designing a perturbation that breaks a symmetry in the elasti…
High-Q photonic resonators and electro-optic coupling using silicon-on-lithium-niobate
Jeremy D. Witmer, Joseph A. Valery, Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola +3
Future quantum networks in which superconducting quantum processors are connected via optical links, will require microwave-to-optical photon converters that preserve entanglement.…
Release-free silicon-on-insulator cavity optomechanics
Christopher J. Sarabalis, Yanni D. Dahmani, Rishi N. Patel +2
We demonstrate optically coupled nanomechanical resonators fabricated on silicon-on-insulator. Silicon fin waveguides are used to control the dispersion of mechanical waves and eng…
Design of nanobeam photonic crystal resonators for a silicon-on-lithium-niobate platform
Jeremy D. Witmer, Jeff T. Hill, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini
We outline the design for a photonic crystal resonator made in a hybrid Silicon/Lithium Niobate material system. Using the index contrast between silicon and lithium niobate, it is…
Guided acoustic and optical waves in silicon-on-insulator for Brillouin scattering and optomechanics
Christopher J. Sarabalis, Jeff T. Hill, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini
We numerically study silicon waveguides on silica showing that it is possible to simultaneously guide optical and acoustic waves in the technologically important silicon on insulat…
Nonlinear radiation pressure dynamics in an optomechanical crystal
Alex G. Krause, Jeff T. Hill, Max Ludwig +4
Utilizing a silicon nanobeam optomechanical crystal, we investigate the attractor diagram arising from the radiation pressure interaction between a localized optical cavity at $λ=…
Linear and nonlinear capacitive coupling of electro-opto-mechanical photonic crystal cavities
Alessandro Pitanti, Johannes M. Fink, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini +4
We fabricate and characterize a microscale silicon electro-opto-mechanical system whose mechanical motion is coupled capacitively to an electrical circuit and optically via radiati…
Thermalization properties at mK temperatures of a nanoscale optomechanical resonator with acoustic-bandgap shield
Sean M. Meenehan, Justin D. Cohen, Simon Groeblacher +4
Optical measurements of a nanoscale silicon optomechanical crystal cavity with a mechanical resonance frequency of 3.6GHz are performed at sub-kelvin temperatures. We infer optical…
Two-dimensional phononic-photonic bandgap optomechanical crystal cavity
Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Jeff T. Hill, Sean Meenehan +3
We present the fabrication and characterization of an artificial crystal structure formed from a thin-film of silicon which has a full phononic bandgap for microwave X-band phonons…
Highly efficient coupling from an optical fiber to a nanoscale silicon optomechanical cavity
Simon Groeblacher, Jeff T. Hill, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini +2
We demonstrate highly efficient coupling of light from an optical fiber to a silicon photonic crystal optomechanical cavity. The fiber-to-cavity coupling utilizes a compact (L ~ 25…
Squeezing of light via reflection from a silicon micromechanical resonator
Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Simon Groeblacher, Jeff T. Hill +3
We present the measurement of squeezed light generation using an engineered optomechanical system fabricated from a silicon microchip and composed of a micromechanical resonator co…
Laser noise in cavity-optomechanical cooling and thermometry
Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Jasper Chan, Jeff T. Hill +5
We review and study the roles of quantum and classical fluctuations in recent cavity-optomechanical experiments which have now reached the quantum regime (mechanical phonon occupan…
Optimized optomechanical crystal cavity with acoustic radiation shield
Jasper Chan, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Jeff T. Hill +2
We present the design of an optomechanical crystal nanobeam cavity that combines finite-element simulation with numerical optimization, and considers the optomechanical coupling ar…
Coherent optical wavelength conversion via cavity-optomechanics
Jeff T. Hill, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Jasper Chan +1
We theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate coherent wavelength conversion of optical photons using photon-phonon translation in a cavity-optomechanical system. For an…
Measurement of the quantum zero-point motion of a nanomechanical resonator
Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Jasper Chan, Jeff T. Hill +3
We present optical sideband spectroscopy measurements of a mesoscopic mechanical oscillator cooled near its quantum ground state. The mechanical oscillator, corresponding to a 3.99…
Laser cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator into its quantum ground state
Jasper Chan, T. P. Mayer Alegre, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini +5
A patterned Si nanobeam is formed which supports co-localized acoustic and optical resonances that are coupled via radiation pressure. Starting from a bath temperature of T=20K, th…