Cover Page The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/58471 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation. Author: Buters, F.M. Title: Where photons meet phonons Issue Date: 2017-12-21

The wafers used to fabricate the samples are super polished silicon wafers. There- fore, the surface is truly flat. The rings used to clamp down the sample can never be made flat

Therefore, the interaction of the inner resonator with the cavity field causes a large optical spring effect for the mechanical motion of the outer resonator.. This can lead to

The frequency of the applied force to the outer resonator is varied via the reference output of a lock-in amplifier and the response of the inner resonator is measured using the

At low read-out laser powers, the noise floor is limited by shot noise. Increas- ing the laser power decreases the noise floor, but only down to the value shown in Fig. A

The difficulties of ground-state cooling can be reduced by choosing a system with relatively high mechanical frequency, such that the mechanical ground-state can be reached by

Harris, in Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (Optical Society of America, 2011), p. Kreyszig, Differential geometry (Dover

Door de frequentie van de tweede laser te vari¨eren, is het effect van de laserfrequentie op de mechanische beweging onderzocht.. Naast intensiteit en frequentie kan ook de

He performed his final research project on the optical properties of SiGe nanocrystals in the group of Tom Gregorkiewicz at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his MSc cum laude