{ "id": "0902.2163", "version": "v1", "published": "2009-02-12T16:54:02.000Z", "updated": "2009-02-12T16:54:02.000Z", "title": "Optomechanics", "authors": [ "Björn Kubala", "Max Ludwig", "Florian Marquardt" ], "comment": "12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop 'Recent Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex System Physics', Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 2008", "categories": [ "cond-mat.mes-hall", "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "We review recent progress in the field of optomechanics, where one studies the effects of radiation on mechanical motion. The paradigmatic example is an optical cavity with a movable mirror, where the radiation pressure can induce cooling, amplification and nonlinear dynamics of the mirror.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2009-02-12T16:54:02.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "optomechanics", "paradigmatic example", "radiation pressure", "nonlinear dynamics", "mechanical motion" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 12, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }