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View SchemaCooling of a mirror by radiation pressure
| Authors | P. F. Cohadon, A. Heidmann, M. Pinard |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9903094 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9903094 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3174 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev.Lett. 83 (1999) 3174-3177 |
Abstract
We describe an experiment in which a mirror is cooled by the radiation pressure of light. A high-finesse optical cavity with a mirror coated on a mechanical resonator is used as an optomechanical sensor of the Brownian motion of the mirror. A feedback mechanism controls this motion via the radiation pressure of a laser beam reflected on the mirror. We have observed either a cooling or a heating of the mirror, depending on the gain of the feedback loop.
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