-- Monday, 21 July 2014
An optomechanical crystal to study interactions among colocalized photons and phonons
Electromagnetic radiation and mechanical vibrations of matter interact and exchange energy at the nanometric scale. The experimental basis to study such interactions with precision is still being established. Researchers from ICN2's Phononic and Photonic nanostructures (P2N) Group designed and published in Nature Communications a silicon 1D Optomechanical crystal built up so that it allows to localize in a stable way both phonons and photons.