Suppression of extraneous thermal noise in cavity optomechanics

Details Suppression of extraneous thermal noise in cavity optomechanics Suppression of extraneous thermal noise in cavity optomechanics

2011-12-14

arxiv.org/abs/1112.3362v1

Physics

Optics

27 pages, 14 figures

Scientific paper

Extraneous thermal motion can limit displacement sensitivity and radiation pressure effects, such as optical cooling, in a cavity-optomechanical system. Here we present an active noise suppression scheme and its experimental implementation. The main challenge is to selectively sense and suppress extraneous thermal noise without affecting motion of the oscillator. Our solution is to monitor two modes of the optical cavity, each with different sensitivity to the oscillator's motion but similar sensitivity to the extraneous thermal motion. This information is used to imprint "anti-noise" onto the frequency of the incident laser field. In our system, based on a nano-mechanical membrane coupled to a Fabry-P\'{e}rot cavity, simulation and experiment demonstrate that extraneous thermal noise can be selectively suppressed and that the associated limit on optical cooling can be reduced.

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