@article{901,
  author = {David Woolf and Pui-Chuen Hui and Eiji Iwase and Mughees Khan and Alejandro Rodriguez and Parag Deotare and Irfan Bulu and Steven Johnson and Federico Capasso and Marko Loncar},
  title = {Optomechanical and photothermal interactions in suspended photonic crystal membranes},
  abstract = {We present here an optomechanical system fabricated with novel stress management techniques that allow us to suspend an ultrathin defect-free silicon photonic-crystal membrane above a Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) substrate with a gap that is tunable to below 200 nm. Our devices are able to generate strong attractive and repulsive optical forces over a large surface area with simple in- and outcoupling and feature the strongest repulsive optomechanical coupling in any geometry to date. The interplay between the optomechanical and photo-thermal-mechanical dynamics is explored, and the latter is used to achieve cooling and amplification of the mechanical mode, demonstrating that our platform is well-suited for applications in low-power mass, force, and refractive index sensing as well as and optomechanical accelerometry.},
  year = {2013},
  journal = {OE},
  volume = {21},
  number = {6},
  pages = {7258{\textendash}7275},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.007258},
}