Optomechanical sideband cooling of a thin membrane within a cavity

@article{Karuza2012OptomechanicalSC,
  title={Optomechanical sideband cooling of a thin membrane within a cavity},
  author={Marin Karuza and C. Molinelli and M. Galassi and C. Biancofiore and Riccardo Natali and Paolo Tombesi and Giovanni Di Giuseppe and David Vitali},
  journal={New Journal of Physics},
  year={2012},
  volume={14}
}
We present an experimental study of dynamical back-action cooling of the fundamental vibrational mode of a thin semitransparent membrane placed within a high-finesse optical cavity. We study how the radiation–pressure interaction modifies the mechanical response of the vibrational mode, and the experimental results are in agreement with a Langevin equation description of the coupled dynamics. The experiments are carried out in the resolved sideband regime, and we have observed cooling by a… 
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