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View SchemaBeating quantum limits in optomechanical sensor by cavity detuning
| Authors | Olivier Arcizet, Tristan Briant, Antoine Heidmann, Michel Pinard |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0602040 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0602040 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.033819 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev. A73 (2006) 033819 |
Abstract
We study the quantum limits in an optomechanical sensor based on a detuned high-finesse cavity with a movable mirror. We show that the radiation pressure exerted on the mirror by the light in the detuned cavity induces a modification of the mirror dynamics and makes the mirror motion sensitive to the signal. This leads to an amplification of the signal by the mirror dynamics, and to an improvement of the sensor sensitivity beyond the standard quantum limit, up to an ultimate quantum limit only related to the mechanical dissipation of the mirror. This improvement is somewhat similar to the one predicted in detuned signal-recycled gravitational-waves interferometers, and makes a high-finesse cavity a model system to test these quantum effects
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