Nonlinear cavity optomechanics with nanomechanical thermal fluctuations
Nonlinear cavity optomechanics with nanomechanical thermal fluctuations
The inherently nonlinear interaction between light and motion in cavity optomechanical systems has experimentally been studied in a linearized description in all except highly driven cases. Here we demonstrate a nanoscale optomechanical system, in which the interaction between light and motion is so large (single-photon cooperativity $C_0 \approx 10^3$) that …