AVS 65th International Symposium & Exhibition
    Nanometer-scale Science and Technology Division Wednesday Sessions
       Session NS+2D+AN+MN+MP+SE-WeM

Invited Paper NS+2D+AN+MN+MP+SE-WeM3
Piezoelectric Optomechanical Systems

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 8:40 am, Room 203A

Session: Micro, Nano and Opto Mechanics
Presenter: Krishna Coimbatore Balram, University of Bristol, UK
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Nanoscale optomechanical systems, which rely on the strong interactions between co-localised optical and mechanical modes in nanoscale cavities, have been explored for a wide variety of applications ranging from sensing to signal transduction [Aspelmeyer et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. (2014)]. In this talk, I will discuss piezoelectric optomechanical platforms for efficient signal transduction between the radio frequency (RF) and optical domain. We use GaAs as our model platform (Balram et al., Optica (2014), Nature Photonics (2016), Phys. Rev. Applied (2017)) and discuss some of the research opportunities and challenges in this field, especially as we move towards higher mechanical frequencies (> 10 GHz).