Publications by Stefan Alexander Weis

Cavity Quantum Optomechanics: Coupling Light And Micromechanical Oscillators

Tobias Kippenberg, Stefan Alexander Weis, Albert Schliesser

Cavity optomechanics(1) is a new research field that has seen spectacular advances in recent years. Optomechanics combines advances in nano-and electromechanical systems with radiation pressure enabled control. The radiation pressure backaction enables to ...

Ieee2014

Cavity-Optomechanics with Silica Microtoroids : Quantum-Coherent Coupling and Optomechanically Induced Transparency

Stefan Alexander Weis

Here, I report on a cryogenic cavity optomechanics experiment that has been set up with the goal to cool a mechanical degree of freedom of a fused silica microtoroidal resonator into the quantum regime by means of a combination of cryogenic and laser cooli ...

EPFL2012

Quantum-coherent coupling of a mechanical oscillator to an optical cavity mode

Tobias Kippenberg, Stefan Alexander Weis, Albert Schliesser

Optical laser fields have been widely used to achieve quantum control over the motional and internal degrees of freedom of atoms and ions(1,2), molecules and atomic gases. A route to controlling the quantum states of macroscopic mechanical oscillators in a ...

2012

Quantum-Coherent Coupling of a Mechanical Oscillator to an Optical Cavity Mode

Tobias Kippenberg, Stefan Alexander Weis, Albert Schliesser

We demonstrate an optomechanical microresonator in which optical and mechanical degrees of freedom exchange energy at a rate exceeding the relevant decoherence rates in the system, enabling quantum control of a mechanical oscillator with light. ...

Ieee2012

Optomechanical sideband cooling of a micromechanical oscillator close to the quantum ground state

Tobias Kippenberg, Emanuel Gavartin, Stefan Alexander Weis, Albert Schliesser

Cooling a mesoscopic mechanical oscillator to its quantum ground state is elementary for the preparation and control of quantum states of mechanical objects. Here, we pre-cool a 70-MHz micromechanical silica oscillator to an occupancy below 200 quanta by t ...

2011

Optomechanically Induced Transparency

Tobias Kippenberg, Emanuel Gavartin, Stefan Alexander Weis, Albert Schliesser

Electromagnetically induced transparency is a quantum interference effect observed in atoms and molecules, in which the optical response of an atomic medium is controlled by an electromagnetic field. We demonstrated a form of induced transparency enabled b ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2010