Advancements in Optomechanics: from Fundamental Physics to Quantum Sensors
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Quantum Photonics and Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 1243
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical resonators; optomechanics; electro-optomechanics; quantum transduction; hybrid systems; integrated photonics; quantum technologies
Interests: radiation-matter interaction; atomic physics; Bose-Einstein condensation; optomechanics; electro-optomechanics; quantum transduction; quantum hybrid interfaces; quantum technologies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Optomechanics is nowadays a well-established field of research, studying the interaction between light and mechanical oscillators. The raising interest towards optomechanics is due to its capability to address a wide range of problems: providing a benchmark for fundamental tests of the quantum theory of macroscopic objects; applications in quantum technology, like quantum interfaces for quantum information networks; highly sensitive displacement and force measurements, leading to quantum sensing and to quantum signal transduction in hybrid interfaces. The advancements in the field led to the first ever detection of gravitational waves and set the best to date experimental upper bound of quantum gravity models based on generalized uncertainty principles. Moreover, optomechanical system can be used as quantum sensors, where phase-sensitive schemes offer unprecedented sensitivities for the measurement of tiny signals, outperforming classical schemes.
This special issue aims to collect the latest progress in the field of optomechanics, sweeping from cavity optomechanics to optomechanical crystals, levitated optomechanics, multimode optomechanical systems, hybrid electromechanical devices, electro-optomechanical devices and optomechanical transduction.
Dr. Paolo Piergentili
Dr. Nicola Malossi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cavity optomechanics
- levitated optomechanical systems
- electro-optomechanical systems
- quantum sensors
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