Jeff D. Thompson

TL;DR: A cavity which is detuned by the motion of a 50-nm-thick dielectric membrane placed between two macroscopic, rigid, high-finesse mirrors is demonstrated, which segregates optical and mechanical functionality to physically distinct structures and avoids compromising either.

TL;DR: In this paper, a photon is coupled to a single atom trapped in the near field of a nanoscale photonic crystal cavity, and an atom-induced optical phase shift is shown to be nonlinear at two-photon level.

TL;DR: A deterministic interface between a single trapped rubidium atom and a nanoscale photonic crystal cavity is demonstrated and Precise control over the atom's position allows us to probe the cavity near-field with a resolution below the diffraction limit and to observe large atom-photon coupling.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of theoretical and experimental studies of dispersively coupled (or "membrane in the middle") optomechanical systems and calculate the linear optical properties of a high finesse cavity containing a thin dielectric membrane, with a particular focus on the less-intuitive regime in which photons tunnel through the membrane on a timescale comparable to the membrane's period of oscillation.

TL;DR: In this article, the optical and mechanical losses of commercial silicon nitride membranes have been measured, and it was shown that 50nm thick, 1mm2 membranes have mechanical Q>106 at 293K and Q>107 at 300mK, well above what has been observed in devices with comparable dimensions.