Solid-state laser refrigeration of composite optomechanical resonators
AssigneeUniversity of Washington
InventorsPeter J. Pauzauskie, Anupum Pant, Xiaojing Xia, Elena Dobretsova, E. James Davis, Alexander B. Bard, Robert G. Felsted
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Abstract
An apparatus and method of indirectly cooling an optomechanical resonator, comprising impinging a laser on an optomechanical resonator attached to a substrate, wherein the optomechanical resonator comprises a cantilever, a cooling end of the cantilever, having a cooling end comprising a laser-induced cooling element, an attachment end of the cantilever, attached to a substrate, and wherein the laser has a peak wavelength in the near-infrared band.
Claims17
A method of indirectly cooling an optomechanical resonator, comprising impinging a laser on an optomechanical resonator attached to a substrate,
- wherein the optomechanical resonator comprises:
- a cantilever;
- a cooling end of the cantilever, comprising a laser-induced cooling element;
- wherein the laser induced cooling element comprises a microcrystal cooling material within the Mie-regime for light scattering;
- and
- an attachment end of the cantilever, attached to a substrate;
- and
- wherein the laser has a peak wavelength in the near-infrared band.
An optomechanical resonator configured to indirectly cool via laser irradiance, the optomechanical resonator comprising:
- a cantilever;
- a cooling end of the cantilever, comprising a laser-induced cooling element;
- wherein the laser induced cooling element comprises a microcrystal cooling material within the Mie-regime for light scattering;
- and
- an attachment end of the cantilever, attached to a substrate;
- wherein the laser-induced cooling element is attached to the cantilever by Van der Waals bonding.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.