‘Mechano-optics’: an optomechanical quantum simulator

Adaptive optics visual simulator.

PURPOSE To develop a prototype instrument that uses adaptive optics to introduce virtually any desired aberration profile in a subject's eye. At the same time, the instrument could be used to evaluate the subject's spatial vision for each controlled aberration profile. This "aberration testing station" or "visual simulator" allows us to study the relationship between specific aberrations and vi...

Dispersively coupled optomechanical systems: a new approach to quantum optics with radiation pressure

Quantum theory of optomechanical cooling

We review the quantum theory of cooling of a mechanical oscillator subject to the radiation pressure force due to light circulating inside a driven optical cavity. Such optomechanical setups have been used recently in a series of experiments by various groups to cool mechanical oscillators (such as cantilevers) by factors reaching 10, and they may soon go to the ground state of mechanical motio...

Quantum effects in optomechanical systems

The search for experimental demonstrations of the quantum behavior of macroscopic mechanical resonators is a fastly growing field of investigation and recent results suggest that the generation of quantum states of resonators with a mass at the microgram scale is within reach. In this chapter we give an overview of two important topics within this research field: cooling to the motional ground ...

Optomechanical Coatings for High-Power Mirrors and Adaptive Optics

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