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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 21, Issue 9, Pages 11227-11236Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.011227
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- DARPA/MTO ORCHID program
- MESO program
- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- AFOSR QuMPASS MURI
- NSF Physics Frontiers Center
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1125565] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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A significant challenge in the development of chip-scale cavity-optomechanical devices as testbeds for quantum experiments and classical metrology lies in the coupling of light from nanoscale optical mode volumes to conventional optical components such as lenses and fibers. In this work we demonstrate a high-efficiency, single-sided fiber-optic coupling platform for optomechanical cavities. By utilizing an adiabatic waveguide taper to transform a single optical mode between a photonic crystal zipper cavity and a permanently mounted fiber, we achieve a collection efficiency for intracavity photons of 52% at the cavity resonance wavelength of lambda approximate to 1538 nm. An optical balanced homodyne measurement of the displacement fluctuations of the fundamental in-plane mechanical resonance at 3.3 MHz reveals that the imprecision noise floor lies a factor of 2.8 above the standard quantum limit (SQL) for continuous position measurement, with a predicted total added noise of 1.4 phonons at the optimal probe power. The combination of extremely low measurement noise and robust fiber alignment presents significant progress towards single-phonon sensitivity for these sorts of integrated micro-optomechanical cavities. (c) 2013 Optical Society of America
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