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中国物理学会期刊

基于光辐射压激励的低频机械振子品质因数测量

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.75.20251443

Measurement of quality factor of low-frequency mechanical oscillators excited by optical radiation pressure

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.75.20251443
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  • 高品质因数(Q值)的机械振子具有较低的机械损耗, 是光力学实验中研究光场和机械振子量子特性以及产生其他如量子压缩和纠缠光场时的重要条件. 在室温下低频段, 受环境和其他机械器件的影响, 机械振子的共振模式识别困难, 并且与其他器件的振动模式交叠, 影响了Q值的测量精度. 代替传统的机械接触式激励(例如压电陶瓷激励), 本文采用了光辐射压对机械振子进行非机械接触式的激励. 基于声光调制器开关产生的光辐射压激励具有更快的响应速度和更宽的工作频段, 特别是在声频甚至更低频段, 能够避免环境和实验装置等因素带来的难以处理的低频噪声. 实验结果表明, 相比压电陶瓷激励, 光激励在低频段(2 kHz以内)的Q值测量准确性更高, 测量误差在5%以内.

     

    High-quality-factor (Q-factor) mechanical resonators are indispensable components in quantum optomechanical experiments, including optomechanical cooling, quantum sensing, precision metrology, and the generation of entanglement and squeezing. Although Q-factor measurements have been performed on high-frequency resonators with low Q-factors, measuring the Q-factors of low-frequency resonators with high Q-factors is still challenging. It is difficult to identify the mechanical modes from other noise sources in the environment, such as audio noise of air fans and mechanical modes of clamps. Furthermore, the response speed of traditional piezoceramic transducer for driving the mechanical resonator is limited. In this study, we use the optical radiation pressure to directly drive the mechanical oscillator. The Q-factor is measured by the ring-down technique. With the aid of precisely controllable electrical current, radiation pressure can be precisely regulated, thereby providing faster response times and a broader operational bandwidth, especially in the acoustic and sub-acoustic frequency ranges. Furthermore, this approach reduces the low-frequency noise caused by environmental vibrations and experimental equipment, which are difficult to isolate. In the experiment, we measure the Q-factor of a mechanical resonator array composed of tens of individual mechanical resonators of different sizes and different structures. A single resonator consists of a single-crystal GaAs cantilever integrated with a micromirror. A laser beam, modulated by an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) acting as a fast optical switch, serves as a radiation pressure driving source. Another probe beam is reflected by the high-reflectivity micromirror of the resonator and detected by a quadrant photodetector (QPD) to obtain the ring-down signal from which the Q-factor is obtained. The results are compared with those obtained using traditional piezoceramic drive. The results show that in a low-frequency region (below ~2 kHz), where environmental noise coupling is pronounced, the optical drive method effectively suppresses low-frequency noise. The relative error of Q-factor measurements using optical drive is approximately 5%, lower than that obtained with piezoelectric drive. This optical radiation-pressure driving technique provides a robust and fast-response method for measuring the Q-factors of massive low-frequency mechanical resonators.

     

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