OMT - Optomechanical Technologies

Deliverables

Other (14)

Completed research secondments

Completion of research secondment at one of the consortium partners.

Completed workshop “Finite Element Modeling”

Technical skills and hands-on workshops in solving finite element modeling problems. The workshop will utilize Femlab and guide ETN fellows in using the software, modelling mechanical modes, modelling thermal transport and modelling optical modes.

Completed workshop “Science Communication & Public Relations”

Transferable skills workshop focused on two critical soft skills, indirect and direct communications.

Completed workshop “Art of Presenting Science”

Transferable skill workshop on presentation skills based on the popular “Art of presenting science” course developed by firm Artesc.

Completed workshop “Quantum measurements and theoretical cavity optomechanics”

Technical skills workshop on theoretical quantum optomechanics

Completed workshop “School on sensing of mechanical motion”

Technical skills workshop on sensing of mechanical motion.

Completed workshop “Postdoc Funding Opportunities & Proposal Writing”

Transferable skills workshop exploring funding opportunities and effective proposal writing

Completed workshop “Introduction to MEMS”

Transferable skills workshop on industry exposure at BOSCH

Completed workshop “Low temperature measurement techniques”

Technical skills workshop focused on modern solutions in refrigeration, thermometry, low noise measurements, and quantum engineering. Academic training will be complemented by visits to industrial and government laboratories (BlueFors Ltd and MIKES).

Completed workshop “Entrepreneurship”

Transferable skills workshop presented by EPFL's TTO office focuses on how companies are started, managing IPR, how business plans are written, and venture capital funding.

Completed workshop “Taking an Idea to a Product at IBM” & “Case Study: Intellectual property and how to write a patent application”

Transferable skills workshop presented by IBM with focus on commercial exploitation of technical innovations and the treatment of intellectual property in an industrial research environment.

Completed training secondments

All beneficiaries will host ESRs under training secondments.

Completed workshop “Career Prospects in Industry & Academia”

Transferable skills workshop exploring career prospects open to ESRs after their PhD education, in the fields of industry (start-up, SME, large companies), academia and patent law.

Determine research secondments

Research secondments are “needs” driven and to be defined by the beginning of the 3rd year at the latest, and concern a stay of 1 – 3 months at one of the partners working on a similar topic. The aim is to complement the PhD thesis with expertise from one of the ETN partners and culminating ideally in a joint publication.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

Probing a Two-Level System Bath via the Frequency Shift of an Off-Resonantly Driven Cavity

Author(s): Thibault Capelle, Emmanuel Flurin, Edouard Ivanov, Jose Palomo, Michael Rosticher, Sheon Chua, Tristan Briant, Pierre-François Cohadon, Antoine Heidmann, Thibaut Jacqmin, Samuel Deléglise
Published in: Physical Review Applied, 13/3, 2020, Page(s) 034022-1 - 034022-12, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.13.034022

Slow propagation of 2 GHz acoustical waves in a suspended GaAs phononic waveguide on insulator

Author(s): Giuseppe Modica, Rui Zhu, Robert Horvath, Gregoire Beaudoin, Isabelle Sagnes, and Rémy Braive
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, 117, 2020, Page(s) 193501, ISSN 1077-3118
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0019949

Stationary optomechanical entanglement between a mechanical oscillator and its measurement apparatus

Author(s): C. Gut, K. Winkler, J. Hoelscher-Obermaier, S. G. Hofer, R. Moghadas Nia, N. Walk, A. Steffens, J. Eisert, W. Wieczorek, J. A. Slater, M. Aspelmeyer, K. Hammerer
Published in: Physical Review Research, 2/3, 2020, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033244

Sensitive optomechanical transduction of electric and magnetic signals to the optical domain

Author(s): Anders Simonsen, Sampo Antero Saarinen, Juan Diego Sanchez, Jan Henrik Ardenkjær-Larsen, Albert Schliesser, Eugene Simon Polzik
Published in: Optics Express, 27/13, 2019, Page(s) 18561, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.018561

Generalized dissipation dilution in strained mechanical resonators

Author(s): S. A. Fedorov, N. J. Engelsen, A. H. Ghadimi, M. J. Bereyhi, R. Schilling, D. J. Wilson, T. J. Kippenberg
Published in: Physical Review B, 99/5, 2019, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.054107

Clamp-Tapering Increases the Quality Factor of Stressed Nanobeams

Author(s): Mohammad. J. Bereyhi, Alberto Beccari, Sergey A. Fedorov, Amir H. Ghadimi, Ryan Schilling, Dalziel J. Wilson, Nils J. Engelsen, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: Nano Letters, 19/4, 2019, Page(s) 2329-2333, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04942

Tunable and weakly invasive probing of a superconducting resonator based on electromagnetically induced transparency

Author(s): Byoung-moo Ann, Gary A. Steele
Published in: Physical Review A, 102/5, 2020, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.102.053721

Integrated gallium phosphide nonlinear photonics

Author(s): Dalziel J. Wilson, Katharina Schneider, Simon Hönl, Miles Anderson, Yannick Baumgartner, Lukas Czornomaz, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Paul Seidler
Published in: Nature Photonics, 14/1, 2020, Page(s) 57-62, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-019-0537-9

Magnetic resonance imaging with optical preamplification and detection

Author(s): A. Simonsen, J. D. Sánchez-Heredia, S. A. Saarinen, J. H. Ardenkjær-Larsen, A. Schliesser, E. S. Polzik
Published in: Scientific Reports, 9/1, 2019, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-54200-3

Irreversible Qubit-Photon Coupling for the Detection of Itinerant Microwave Photons

Author(s): Raphaël Lescanne, Samuel Deléglise, Emanuele Albertinale, Ulysse Réglade, Thibault Capelle, Edouard Ivanov, Thibaut Jacqmin, Zaki Leghtas, Emmanuel Flurin
Published in: Physical Review X, 10/2, 2020, Page(s) 021038-1 - 021038-17, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.10.021038

Fractal-like Mechanical Resonators with a Soft-Clamped Fundamental Mode

Author(s): S. A. Fedorov, A. Beccari, N. J. Engelsen, and T. J. Kippenberg
Published in: Physcial Review Letters, 124, 2020, Page(s) 025502, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.025502

Two-membrane cavity optomechanics

Author(s): Paolo Piergentili, Letizia Catalini, Mateusz Bawaj, Stefano Zippilli, Nicola Malossi, Riccardo Natali, David Vitali, Giovanni Di Giuseppe
Published in: New Journal of Physics, 20/8, 2018, Page(s) 083024, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aad85f

Elastic strain engineering for ultralow mechanical dissipation

Author(s): A. H. Ghadimi, S. A. Fedorov, N. J. Engelsen, M. J. Bereyhi, R. Schilling, D. J. Wilson, T. J. Kippenberg
Published in: Science, 360/6390, 2018, Page(s) 764-768, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.aar6939

Highly selective dry etching of GaP in the presence of Al x Ga 1–x P with a SiCl 4 /SF 6 plasma

Author(s): Simon Hönl, Herwig Hahn, Yannick Baumgartner, Lukas Czornomaz, Paul Seidler
Published in: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 51/18, 2018, Page(s) 185203, ISSN 0022-3727
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/aab8b7

Noise robustness of synchronization of two nanomechanical resonators coupled to the same cavity field

Author(s): Wenlin Li, Paolo Piergentili, Jie Li, Stefano Zippilli, Riccardo Natali, Nicola Malossi, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, David Vitali
Published in: Physical Review A, 101/1, 2020, Page(s) 013802-1-013802-11, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.101.013802

Multimode Cavity Optomechanics

Author(s): Paolo Piergentili, Letizia Catalini, Mateusz Bawaj, Stefano Zippili, Nicola Malossi, Riccardo Natali, David Vitali, Giovanni Di Giuseppe
Published in: Proceedings, 12/1, 2019, Page(s) 54, ISSN 2504-3900
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/proceedings2019012054

Thermal intermodulation noise in cavity-based measurements

Author(s): Sergey A. Fedorov, Alberto Beccari, Amirali Arabmoheghi, Dalziel J. Wilson, Nils J. Engelsen, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: Optica, 7/11, 2020, Page(s) 1609, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/optica.402449

Optomechanics with one-dimensional gallium phosphide photonic crystal cavities

Author(s): Katharina Schneider, Yannick Baumgartner, Simon Hönl, Pol Welter, Herwig Hahn, Dalziel J. Wilson, Lukas Czornomaz, and Paul Seidler
Published in: Optica, 6/5, 2019, Page(s) 577–584, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/optica.6.000577

Conference proceedings (2)

Simulation study on the optomechanical interaction of suspended graphene on silicon slot waveguide

Author(s): Khannan Rajendran; Dries Van Thourhout
Published in: 1, 2018
Publisher: ZENODO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4130961

Optomechanics with one-dimensional gallium phosphide photonic crystal cavities

Author(s): Katharina Schneider, Pol Welter, Paul F. Seidler, Herwig Hahn, Lukas Czornomaz, Yannick Baumgartner, Simon Hönl
Published in: Quantum Nanophotonics, 2017, Page(s) 18, ISBN 9781-510611764
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2272568

Other (8)

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion induced by optomechanical gradient forces in nanophotonic waveguides

Author(s): Ashour, Mohamed; Caspers, Jan Niklas; Weig, Eva M.; Degenfeld-Schonburg, Peter
Published in: 1, 2020
Publisher: arXiv

Enhancement of the optomechanical coupling and Kerr nonlinearity using the Josephson Capacitance of Cooper-pair box

Author(s): Haque, M. T.; Manninen, J.; Vitali, D.; Hakonen, P.
Published in: 2020
Publisher: arXiv

Emergent Nonlinear Phenomena in a Driven Dissipative Photonic Dimer

Author(s): Tikan, Alexey; Riemensberger, Johann; Komagata, Kenichi; Hönl, Simon; Churaev, Mikhail; Skehan, Connor; Guo, Hairun; Wang, Rui Ning; Liu, Junqiu; Seidler, Paul; Kippenberg, Tobias J.
Published in: 2, 2020
Publisher: arXiv

Ground state cooling of a radio-frequency LC circuit in an optoelectromechanical system

Author(s): Nicola Malossi, Paolo Piergentili, Jie Li, Enrico Serra, Riccardo Natali, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, David Vitali
Published in: 2020
Publisher: arXiv

Edge mode engineering for optimal ultracoherent silicon nitride membranes

Author(s): E. Ivanov, T. Capelle, M. Rosticher, J. Palomo, T. Briant, P.-F. Cohadon, A.Heidmann, T. Jacqmin, S. Deléglise
Published in: 2020
Publisher: arXiv

Two-membrane cavity optomechanics: non-linear dynamics

Author(s): Paolo Piergentili, Wenlin Li, Riccardo Natali, Nicola Malossi, David Vitali, Giovanni Di Giuseppe
Published in: 2020
Publisher: arXiv

Thermoelectric current in a graphene Cooper pair splitter

Author(s): Tan, Z. B.; Laitinen, A.; Kirsanov, N. S.; Galda, A.; Haque, M.; Savin, A.; Golubev, D. S.; Vinokur, V. M.; Lesovik, G. B.; Hakonen, P. J.
Published in: 2020
Publisher: arXiv

Topological phonon transport in an optomechanical system

Author(s): Hengjiang Ren, Tirth Shah, Hannes Pfeifer, Christian Brendel, Vittorio Peano, Florian Marquardt, Oskar Painter
Published in: 2020
Publisher: arXiv