摘要

Using a stabilizing quadrature-feedback scheme the thermal motion of an on-chip opto-electromechanical resonator is squeezed far beyond the limit of classical parametric squeezing. It is shown that feedback on the Y quadrature by itself can already squeeze the thermal motion of the resonator, but the maximum achievable squeezing level is limited by the imprecision noise. By combining the feedback and parametric pumping a record of 15.1 dB of classical noise squeezing is demonstrated. This not only largely exceeds the 3 dB limit for regular squeezing, but is also deeper than ever can be achieved with feedback cooling. The detector-resonator interaction is analyzed within the semi-classical framework and it is shown that using this feedback-stabilized parametric pumping technique true quantum-squeezed states can be prepared when the resonator starts off close to its ground state, and that the ultimate amount of squeezing depends on the minimum detuning that can be achieved.

  • 出版日期2015-4-27