The lab has harnessed a new type of coupling between light and mechanical resonator to demonstrate a new technique for cooling–removing mechanical energy–from a nanoscale object. This object was fabricated from a diamond chip and was installed in a custom microscope and cryostat designed for combining laser cooling with nanophotonic device measurements. The work was…
It’s been a busy year: our latest work was published in Nature Communications, we submitted a milestone result on coupling light to quantum memories optomechanically for the first time, Hamid defended his PhD, and we moved into a luxurious new lab:
Matthew Mitchell has been awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal. This medal is awarded each year to a single student at the University of Calgary in recoginition of their thesis being judged “best” from their graduating class.
Check out Hamid’s latest work in Optics Express OSA | Optomechanical detection of light with orbital angular momentum (osapublishing.org)
Check out Matt and David’s latest discovery: a technique for interfering light with vastly different different wavelengths. They accomplish this by coupling both optical fields to the same mechanical resonator. The phase of each field affects the motion of the resonator, resulting in an effective interaction between both optical inputs. Two-colour interferometry and switching through…