Optomechanically-induced-transparency cooling of massive mechanical resonators to the quantum ground state

Yong-Chun Liu, Yun-Feng Xiao, Xingsheng Luan, Chee Wei Wong

Published 2015-04-17Version 1

Ground state cooling of massive mechanical objects remains a difficult task restricted by the unresolved mechanical sidebands. We propose an optomechanically-induced-transparency cooling scheme to achieve ground state cooling of mechanical motion without the resolved sideband condition in a pure optomechanical system with two mechanical modes coupled to the same optical cavity mode. We show that ground state cooling is achievable for sideband resolution $\omega_{m}/\kappa$ as low as 0.003. This provides a new route for quantum manipulation of massive macroscopic devices and high-precision measurements.