Radio-frequency communication systems have long used bulk-and surface-acoustic-wave
devices supporting ultrasonic mechanical waves to manipulate and sense signals. These …

Mechanical systems are ideal candidates for studying quantum behavior of macroscopic
objects. To this end, a mechanical resonator has to be cooled to its ground state and its …

In the past decade there has been a surge in research at the boundary between photonics
and phononics. Most efforts have centred on coupling light to motion in a high-quality optical …

Nanoscale modal confinement is known to radically enhance the effect of intrinsic Kerr and
Raman nonlinearities within nanophotonic silicon waveguides. By contrast, stimulated …

In contrast to a conventional symmetric Lorentzian resonance, Fano resonance is
predominantly used to describe asymmetric-shaped resonances, which arise from the …

“Cavity-optomechanics” aims to study the quantum properties of mechanical systems. A
common strategy implemented in order to achieve this goal couples a high finesse photonic …

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is traditionally viewed as a process whose strength is
dictated by intrinsic material nonlinearities with little dependence on waveguide geometry …

In this paper, we describe a general optomechanical system for converting photons to
phonons in an efficient and reversible manner. We analyze classically and quantum …

Optical forces are widely used to manipulate microparticles such as living cells, DNA and
bacteria. The forces used in these'optical tweezers' originate from the strongly varying …

The use of optical forces to manipulate small objects is well known. Applications include the
manipulation of living cells by optical tweezers and optical cooling in atomic physics. The …