Optical phase-space reconstruction of mirror position at the attometer level
- Resource Type
- Working Paper
- Authors
- Briant, T.; Cohadon, P. F.; Pinard, M.; Heidmann, A.
- Source
- Eur. Phys. J. D 22, 131 (2003)
- Subject
- Quantum Physics
- Language
We describe an experiment in which the quadratures of the position of an harmonically-bound mirror are observed at the attometer level. We have studied the Brownian motion of the mirror, both in the free regime and in the cold-damped regime when an external viscous force is applied by radiation pressure. We have also studied the thermal-noise squeezing when the external force is parametrically modulated. We have observed both the 50% theoretical limit of squeezing at low gain and the parametric oscillation of the mirror for a large gain.
Comment: 10 pages, 11 figures