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Radiation-pressure-driven mechanical oscillations in silica microdisk resonators on chip

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We demonstrate radiation-pressure-driven mechanical oscillations from high optical quality factor silica microdisk resonators on chip. Mechanical quality factors of 3520 in air and 12540 in vacuum for the fundamental radial breathing modes are obtained from 73 μm-diameter silica microdisks with mechanical frequencies of ∼51 MHz. The measured mechanical oscillation threshold powers for the input light are determined to be 62.5 μW in air and down to 26.6 μW in vacuum.

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  1. National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    GuanZhong Wang, MingMing Zhao, JiYang Ma, GuanYu Li, Yuan Chen, XiaoShun Jiang & Min Xiao

  2. Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 72701, USA

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Wang, G., Zhao, M., Ma, J. et al. Radiation-pressure-driven mechanical oscillations in silica microdisk resonators on chip. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 58, 1–4 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-015-5649-8

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