Phonon laser action in a tunable, two-level system

We demonstrate a compound optical microcavity system, coupled to a radio-frequency mechanical mode, operating in close analogy to a two-level laser. Inversion produces gain, causing phonon laser action above a pump threshold of 7 µW.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  CLEO/QELS: 2010 Laser Science to Photonic Applications

• Publication date

  2009-07-29

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Physics, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.083901arXiv 0907.5212PMID 20366930
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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