Cavity-Mediated Cooling
- Homepage
- http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/cno.html
- Research Team
- Andre Xuereb
- Investigators
- Peter Horak, Timothy Freegarde
Schematic of a particle interacting with an optical resonator mode.
Optical resonators enhance the interaction of light with matter while simultaneously acting as a temporal buffer. Both effects can be exploited to generate light-induced friction, or cooling, forces on atoms, molecules, or micromirrors. We investigate various aspects of these effects through numerical simulations, assisted by approximate analytical models, in this EPSRC and ESF sponsored project.
Categories
Physical Systems and Engineering simulation: MEMS, Photonics
Algorithms and computational methods: Monte Carlo