Cooling of a Mirror by Radiation Pressure

1999/03/31 by P.-F. Cohadon, P. F. Cohadon, A. Heidmann +1 · 21 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptive optics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Curved mirror #Deformable mirror #Fabry–Pérot interferometer #Finesse #Laser #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Optical cavity #Optics #Optomechanics #Physics #Plane mirror #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Radiation #Radiation pressure #Resonator #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.83.3174

published as Phys.Rev.Lett. 83 (1999) 3174-3177 · 4 pages, 6 figures, RevTeX

openalex publication_date 1999/10/18 · arxiv created 1999/10/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

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.

Citations

• Optomechanical Cooling of a Macroscopic Oscillator by Homodyne Feedback

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