Exploring Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics in Optomechanical Devices

• Main Author: Miao, Haixing (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Springer Theses
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Astrophysics.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Laser Technology, Photonics.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.

Recent state-of-the-art technologies in fabricating low-loss optical and mechanical components have significantly motivated the study of quantum-limited measurements with optomechanical devices. Such research is the main subject of this thesis. In the first part, the author considers various approac...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Quantum Theory of Gravitational-Wave Detectors
• 3 Modifying Input Optics: Double Squeezed-input
• 4 Modifying Test-Mass Dynamics: Double Optical Spring
• 5 Measuring a Conserved Quantity: Variational Quadrature Readout
• 6 MQM with Three-Mode Optomechanical Interactions
• 7 Achieving the Ground State and Enhancing Optomechanical Entanglement
• 8 Universal Entanglement Between an Oscillator and Continuous Fields
• 9 Nonlinear Optomechanical System for Probing Mechanical Energy Quantization
• 10 State Preparation: Non-Gaussian Quantum State
• 11 Probing Macroscopic Quantum States
• 12 Conclusions and Future Work
• 13 List of Publications
• Bibliography.