Measurement of radiation-pressure-induced optomechanical dynamics in a suspended Fabry-Perot cavity
- 15 August 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 74 (2), 021802
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.74.021802
Abstract
We report on experimental observation of radiation-pressure induced effects in a high-power optical cavity. These effects play an important role in next-generation gravitational wave detectors, as well as in quantum nondemolition interferometers. We measure the properties of an optical spring, created by coupling of an intense laser field to the pendulum mode of a suspended mirror, and also the parametric instability (PI) that arises from the coupling between acoustic modes of the cavity mirrors and the cavity optical mode. We measure an unprecedented optical rigidity of , corresponding to an optical rigidity that is 6000 times stiffer than the mechanical stiffness, and PI strength . We measure the unstable nature of the optical spring resonance, and demonstrate that the PI can be stabilized by feedback to the frequency of the laser source.
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