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View SchemaEffective mass in quantum effects of radiation pressure
| Authors | M. Pinard, Y. Hadjar, A. Heidmann |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9901057 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9901057 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s100530050354 |
| Journal | Eur. Phys. J. D 7 (1999) 107-116 |
Abstract
We study the quantum effects of radiation pressure in a high-finesse cavity with a mirror coated on a mechanical resonator. We show that the optomechanical coupling can be described by an effective susceptibility which takes into account every acoustic modes of the resonator and their coupling to the light. At low frequency this effective response is similar to a harmonic response with an effective mass smaller than the total mass of the mirror. For a plano-convex resonator the effective mass is related to the light spot size and becomes very small for small optical waists, thus enhancing the quantum effects of optomechanical coupling.
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