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  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
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39 Pages

Opto-Mechanical Photonic Crystal Cavities for Sensing Application

  • Ji Xia,
  • Qifeng Qiao,
  • Guangcan Zhou,
  • Fook Siong Chau and
  • Guangya Zhou

12 October 2020

A new class of hybrid systems that couple optical and mechanical nanoscale devices is under development. According to their interaction concepts, two groups of opto-mechanical systems are summarized as mechanically tunable and radiation pressure-driv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,601 Views
19 Pages

24 June 2017

The theory of quantum optomechanics is reconstructed from first principles by finding a Lagrangian from light’s equation of motion and then proceeding to the Hamiltonian. The nonlinear terms, including the quadratic and higher‐order interactions, do...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,824 Views
14 Pages

Coupling of Integrated Waveguide and Optomechanic Cavity for Microwave Phonon Excitation in Si Nanobeams

  • Abdellatif Gueddida,
  • Bahram Djafari Rouhani,
  • Yan Pennec,
  • Andrea Di Donato,
  • Luca Pierantoni,
  • Alexander Korovin and
  • Davide Mencarelli

The availability of high quality manufacturing for optical micro/nano patterned cavities paves the way to the development of scalable circuits and devices based on optomechanical (OM) interaction of sound and light in extremely small volumes. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,764 Views
20 Pages

5 December 2017

A method is described to solve the nonlinear Langevin equations arising from quadratic interactions in quantum mechanics. While the zeroth order linearization approximation to the operators is normally used, here, first and second order truncation pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,899 Views
15 Pages

7 February 2020

We theoretically study the dynamical Casimir effect (DCE), i.e., parametric amplification of a quantum vacuum, in an optomechanical cavity interacting with a photonic crystal, which is considered to be an ideal system to study the microscopic dissipa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,746 Views
14 Pages

Low Noise Opto-Electro-Mechanical Modulator for RF-to-Optical Transduction in Quantum Communications

  • Michele Bonaldi,
  • Antonio Borrielli,
  • Giovanni Di Giuseppe,
  • Nicola Malossi,
  • Bruno Morana,
  • Riccardo Natali,
  • Paolo Piergentili,
  • Pasqualina Maria Sarro,
  • Enrico Serra and
  • David Vitali

19 July 2023

In this work, we present an Opto-Electro-Mechanical Modulator (OEMM) for RF-to-optical transduction realized via an ultra-coherent nanomembrane resonator capacitively coupled to an rf injection circuit made of a microfabricated read-out able to impro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
913 Views
19 Pages

Research on Micro-Vibration Analysis of Segmented Telescope Based on Opto-Mechanical Integration

  • Kangmin Wen,
  • Lingjie Wang,
  • Xuefeng Zeng,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Wenyan Li,
  • Lianqiang Wang,
  • Wei Sha and
  • Di Zhou

19 March 2025

Aiming at the inherent nature and complexity of the influence of in-orbit micro-vibration in the imaging quality of segmented telescopes, a dynamic full-link opto-mechanical integration analysis method is proposed. The method is based on the measured...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,615 Views
17 Pages

A measurement of an observable A performed on a quantum system that is initially prepared in a state ρi, followed by a probabilistic procedure that leaves the system in a final state ρf, a process often referred as state postselection (or fil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
949 Views
13 Pages

LaserCAD—A Novel Parametric, Python-Based Optical Design Software

  • Clemens Anschütz,
  • Joachim Hein,
  • He Zhuang and
  • Malte C. Kaluza

8 November 2025

In this article, we present LaserCAD, an open-source, script-based software toolkit for the design and visualization of optical setups based on parametric ray tracing. Unlike conventional commercial tools, which focus on complex lens optimization and...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,161 Views
19 Pages

Photo-Induced Relief in Rheology of Liquid Crystals

  • Dina V. Shmeliova,
  • Sergey V. Pasechnik,
  • Semen S. Kharlamov,
  • Alexander V. Dubtsov,
  • Alexandre V. Zakharov,
  • Sarah Loebner and
  • Svetlana Santer

14 March 2023

In this paper, we report the first experimental results on capillary shear flows of a nematic liquid crystal 5CB (4-cyano-4′-pentylbiphenyl), arising due to interaction of the anisotropic liquid, correspondent to the continuous rotational symmetry, w...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,890 Views
30 Pages

Spin-Mechanics with Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers and Trapped Particles

  • Maxime Perdriat,
  • Clément Pellet-Mary,
  • Paul Huillery,
  • Loïc Rondin and
  • Gabriel Hétet

Controlling the motion of macroscopic oscillators in the quantum regime has been the subject of intense research in recent decades. In this direction, opto-mechanical systems, where the motion of micro-objects is strongly coupled with laser light rad...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,446 Views
13 Pages

Improved Antibiotic Detection in Raw Milk Using Machine Learning Tools over the Absorption Spectra of a Problem-Specific Nanobiosensor

  • Pablo Gutiérrez,
  • Sebastián E. Godoy,
  • Sergio Torres,
  • Patricio Oyarzún,
  • Ignacio Sanhueza,
  • Victor Díaz-García,
  • Braulio Contreras-Trigo and
  • Pablo Coelho

14 August 2020

In this article we present the development of a biosensor system that integrates nanotechnology, optomechanics and a spectral detection algorithm for sensitive quantification of antibiotic residues in raw milk of cow. Firstly, nanobiosensors were des...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,881 Views
8 Pages

18 March 2022

Acoustic shockwaves are of interest as a possible means of the selective inactivation of viruses. It has been proposed that such inactivation may be enhanced by driving the virus particles at frequencies matching the characteristic frequency correspo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,344 Views
37 Pages

Self-Organization in Cold Atoms Mediated by Diffractive Coupling

  • Thorsten Ackemann,
  • Guillaume Labeyrie,
  • Giuseppe Baio,
  • Ivor Krešić,
  • Josh G. M. Walker,
  • Adrian Costa Boquete,
  • Paul Griffin,
  • William J. Firth,
  • Robin Kaiser and
  • Gordon R. M. Robb
  • + 1 author

23 June 2021

This article discusses self-organization in cold atoms via light-mediated interactions induced by feedback from a single retro-reflecting mirror. Diffractive dephasing between the pump beam and the spontaneous sidebands selects the lattice period. Sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,321 Views
8 Pages

External Control of Dissipative Coupling in a Heterogeneously Integrated Photonic Crystal—SOI Waveguide Optomechanical System

  • Viktor Tsvirkun,
  • Alessandro Surrente,
  • Fabrice Raineri,
  • Grégoire Beaudoin,
  • Rama Raj,
  • Isabelle Sagnes,
  • Isabelle Robert-Philip and
  • Rémy Braive

12 October 2016

Cavity optomechanical systems with an enhanced coupling between mechanical motion and electromagnetic radiation have permitted the investigation of many novel physical effects. The optomechanical coupling in the majority of these systems is of disper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,552 Views
9 Pages

27 July 2021

Cavity optomechanics represents a flexible platform for the implementation of quantum technologies, useful in particular for the realization of quantum interfaces, quantum sensors and quantum information processing. However, the dispersive, radiation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,396 Views
14 Pages

Phase-Controlled Entanglement in a Four-Mode Optomechanical System

  • Cheng Jiang,
  • Hongxia Lu,
  • Zhangyin Zhai and
  • Guibin Chen

29 October 2022

We present a scheme for realizing phase-controlled entanglement in a microwave optomechanical system comprising two microwave cavities and two mechanical oscillators. Under specific driving conditions, we show that this optomechanical interface can b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,933 Views
12 Pages

A Nanoscale Photonic Crystal Cavity Optomechanical System for Ultrasensitive Motion Sensing

  • Ji Xia,
  • Fuyin Wang,
  • Chunyan Cao,
  • Zhengliang Hu,
  • Heng Yang and
  • Shuidong Xiong

21 April 2021

Optomechanical nanocavities open a new hybrid platform such that the interaction between an optical cavity and mechanical oscillator can be achieved on a nanophotonic scale. Owing to attractive advantages such as ultrasmall mass, high optical quality...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,884 Views
12 Pages

We theoretically research the four-wave mixing (FWM) and second-order sideband generation (SSG) in a hybrid optomechanical system under the condition of pump on-resonance and pump off-resonance, where an optomechanical resonator is coupled to another...

  • Article
  • Open Access
528 Views
19 Pages

21 July 2025

We provide an approach to detect a nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center, which might be a defect in a diamond nanomembrane, using a dual-coupling optomechanical system. The NV center modifies the energy-level structure of a dual-coupling optomechanical syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,460 Views
15 Pages

Approximate Evolution for A Hybrid System—An Optomechanical Jaynes-Cummings Model

  • Luis Medina-Dozal,
  • Irán Ramos-Prieto and
  • José Récamier

5 December 2020

In this work, we start from a phenomenological Hamiltonian built from two known systems: the Hamiltonian of a pumped optomechanical system and the Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian. Using algebraic techniques we construct an approximate time evolution oper...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,415 Views
17 Pages

Two-Membrane Cavity Optomechanics: Linear and Non-Linear Dynamics

  • Paolo Piergentili,
  • Riccardo Natali,
  • David Vitali and
  • Giovanni Di Giuseppe

8 February 2022

In this paper, we review the linear and non-linear dynamics of an optomechanical system made of a two-membrane etalon in a high-finesse Fabry–Pérot cavity. This two-membrane setup has the capacity to modify on demand the single-photon op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,252 Views
12 Pages

5 October 2022

In this paper, the optical nonreciprocal phenomena in double optomechanical systems with quadratic coupling are studied. Our model belongs to an optomechanical system in which three coupling modes coexist, that is, the two cavity fields are coupled w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,931 Views
20 Pages

25 December 2015

In this paper we give a new description, in terms of optomechanics, of previous work on the problem of an atomic Bose–Einstein condensate interacting with the optical lattice inside a laser-pumped optical cavity and subject to a bias force, such as g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,432 Views
10 Pages

We propose an efficient scheme to enhance the generation of optical second-order sidebands (OSSs) in an atom-assisted optomechanical system. The cavity field is coupled with a strong driving field and a weak probe field, and a control field is applie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,738 Views
11 Pages

8 November 2018

Realizing highly sensitive charge sensors is of fundamental importance in physics, and may find applications in metrology, electronic tunnel imaging, and engineering technology. With the development of nanophotonics, cavity optomechanics with Coulomb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,325 Views
9 Pages

Parameter Study of 500 nm Thick Slot-Type Photonic Crystal Cavities for Cavity Optomechanical Sensing

  • Zhe Li,
  • Jun Liu,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Chenguwei Xian,
  • Yifan Wang,
  • Kai Chen,
  • Gen Qiu,
  • Guangwei Deng,
  • Yongjun Huang and
  • Boyu Fan

In recent years, research on light-matter interactions in silicon-based micro/nano cavity optomechanical systems demonstrates high-resolution sensing capabilities (e.g., sub-fm-level displacement sensitivity). Conventional 2D photonic crystal (PhC) c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,477 Views
12 Pages

12 June 2021

With the presence of a driving field applied to double quantum dots and a control field applied on the cavity, the transmission performance and group delay effect of a probe field have been theoretically studied in a hybrid optomechanical system (HOM...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,657 Views
10 Pages

Generation of Schrödinger Cat States in a Hybrid Cavity Optomechanical System

  • Xingwei An,
  • Tonghui Deng,
  • Lei Chen,
  • Saiyun Ye and
  • Zhirong Zhong

29 October 2022

We present an alternative scheme to achieve Schrödinger cat states in a strong coupling hybrid cavity optomechanical system. Under the single-photon strong-coupling regime, the interaction between the atom–cavity–oscillator system ca...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,163 Views
24 Pages

Cooling of Optically Levitated Particles: Principles, Implementations, and Applications

  • Jiaming Liu,
  • Yizhe Lin,
  • Han Cai,
  • Xingfan Chen,
  • Nan Li,
  • Huizhu Hu and
  • Cheng Liu

24 September 2025

Optically levitated particles in high vacuum offer an exceptionally isolated mechanical platform for photonic control. Effective cooling of their center-of-mass motion is essential not only for enabling ultrasensitive precision sensing but also for o...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,629 Views
6 Pages

The ultrastrong coupling regime of light-matter interaction is achieved when the coupling strength is a significant fraction of the natural frequencies of the noninteracting parts. Physics in this regime has recently attracted great interest, both th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,011 Views
10 Pages

We propose a scheme to investigate the interference properties of a double optomechanically induced transparency system, which involves two charged nanomechanical resonators, coupled via Coulomb interaction. The results show that the opening of trans...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
746 Views
21 Pages

3 July 2025

In an optomechanical system (OMS), the dynamics of quantum correlations, e.g., quantum discord, can witness synchronized squeezing between the cavity and mechanical modes. We investigate an OMS driven by two coherent fields, and demonstrate that opti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,767 Views
12 Pages

15 September 2023

In this paper, we present a theoretical scheme for the generation and manipulation of bipartite atom–atom entanglement in a dissipative optomechanical system containing two atoms in the presence of linear and nonlinear (quadratic) couplings. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,196 Views
13 Pages

Phase-Controlled Tunable Unconventional Photon Blockade in a Single-Atom-Cavity System

  • Hong Li,
  • Ming Liu,
  • Feng Yang,
  • Siqi Zhang and
  • Shengping Ruan

19 November 2023

In the past few years, cavity optomechanical systems have received extensive attention and research and have achieved rapid development both theoretically and experimentally. The systems play an important role in many fields, such as quantum informat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,866 Views
15 Pages

Numerical Investigation of Localized Surface Plasmons in Gold Nano-Ridge Dimer-on-Mirror Structures

  • Mohamed El Ghafiani,
  • Adnane Noual,
  • Madiha Amrani,
  • Mohammed Moutaouekkil and
  • El Houssaine El Boudouti

30 August 2024

The study of localized surface plasmons (LSPs) in nanoscale structures is an essential step towards identifying optimal plasmonic modes that can facilitate robust optomechanical coupling and deepen our understanding of light–matter interactions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,953 Views
15 Pages

In-Situ Li-Ion Pouch Cell Diagnostics Utilising Plasmonic Based Optical Fibre Sensors

  • Christopher Gardner,
  • Elin Langhammer,
  • Wenjia Du,
  • Dan J. L. Brett,
  • Paul R. Shearing,
  • Alexander J. Roberts and
  • Tazdin Amietszajew

19 January 2022

As the drive to improve the cost, performance characteristics and safety of lithium-ion batteries increases with adoption, one area where significant value could be added is that of battery diagnostics. This paper documents an investigation into the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,301 Views
19 Pages

Unlocking the Luminescent Potential of Fish-Scale-Derived Carbon Nanoparticles for Multicolor Conversion

  • Najeeb S. Abdulla II,
  • Marvin Jose F. Fernandez,
  • Bakhytzhan Baptayev and
  • Mannix P. Balanay

11 October 2024

This study introduces a novel approach to addressing environmental issues by developing fish-scale carbon nanoparticles (FSCNPs) with a wide range of colors from discarded fish scales. The process involves hydrothermally synthesizing raw tamban (Sard...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6,475 Views
13 Pages

Superradiant MeV γ Scattered by a Room-Temperature Spinor Quantum Fluid

  • Yao Cheng,
  • Ting-Han Lin,
  • Chih-Hao Lee and
  • Shun-Chi Wu

1 July 2017

Recent reports have revealed the rich long-lived Mossbauer phenomenon of 93mNb, in which it has long been speculated that the delocalized 93mNb undergoes Bose-Einstein condensation following an increase in the 93mNb density beyond the threshold of 10...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,058 Views
12 Pages

In this work, we theoretically study the optical properties of a graphene nanoribbon with a quantum dot (QD) on it. The system consists of a graphene nanoribbon with dimensions of 400 × 3100 (nm2) and a quantum dot with a nanoscale radius. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,415 Views
11 Pages

Design of GHz Mechanical Nanoresonator with High Q-Factor Based on Optomechanical System

  • Jun Jin,
  • Ningdong Hu,
  • Lamin Zhan,
  • Xiaohong Wang,
  • Zenglei Zhang and
  • Hongping Hu

30 October 2022

Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) have dominated the interests of the industry due to its microminiaturization and high frequency for the past few decades. With the rapid development of various radio frequency (RF) systems, such as 5G mobile tel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,230 Views
17 Pages

Sensing Behavior of Metal-Free Porphyrin and Zinc Phthalocyanine Thin Film towards Xylene-Styrene and HCl Vapors in Planar Optical Waveguide

  • Nuerguli Kari,
  • Marco Zannotti,
  • Rita Giovannetti,
  • Patigu Maimaiti,
  • Patima Nizamidin,
  • Shawket Abliz and
  • Abliz Yimit

22 June 2021

The sensing behavior of a thin film composed of metal-free 5, 10, 15, 20-tetrakis (p-hydroxy phenyl) porphyrin and zinc phthalocyanine complex towards m-xylene, styrene, and HCl vapors in a homemade planar optical waveguide (POWG), was studied at roo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
757 Views
15 Pages

The photon blockade effect, as a quantum behavior in cavity optomechanics, has certain limitations, including stringent requirements for system parameters and technical difficulties in achieving strong nonlinear interactions. This paper proposes a no...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,145 Views
10 Pages

Two-Phonon Blockade in Quadratically Coupled Optomechanical Systems

  • Zi-Yuan Li,
  • Guang-Ri Jin,
  • Tai-Shuang Yin and
  • Aixi Chen

27 January 2022

We propose a scheme to realize the two-phonon blockade effect in a quadratically coupled optomechanical system. We consider the case that the optical cavity is simultaneously driven by a strong pumping field and a weak driving field. By strongly driv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,416 Views
18 Pages

21 June 2023

We present a systematic study on the effects of dynamical transfer and steady-state synchronization of quantum states in a hybrid optomechanical network consisting of two cavities, which carry atoms inside and interact via a common moving mirror such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,384 Views
18 Pages

Photothermal Effects and Applications of Polydimethylsiloxane Membranes with Carbon Nanoparticles

  • Reinher Pimentel-Domínguez,
  • Amado M. Velázquez-Benítez,
  • J. Rodrigo Vélez-Cordero,
  • Mathieu Hautefeuille,
  • Francisco Sánchez-Arévalo and
  • Juan Hernández-Cordero

23 March 2016

The advent of nanotechnology has triggered novel developments and applications for polymer-based membranes with embedded or coated nanoparticles. As an example, interaction of laser radiation with metallic and carbon nanoparticles has shown to provid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
758 Views
15 Pages

Multiline Laser Interferometry for Non-Contact Dynamic Morphing of Hierarchical Surfaces

  • Biagio Audia,
  • Caterina Maria Tone,
  • Pasquale Pagliusi,
  • Alfredo Mazzulla,
  • George Papavieros,
  • Vassilios Constantoudis and
  • Gabriella Cipparrone

Hierarchical surface structuring is a critical aspect of advanced materials design, impacting fields ranging from optics to biomimetics. Among several laser-based methods for complex structuring of photo-responsive surfaces, the broadband vectorial i...

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