Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Quadratic Measurement and Conditional State Preparation in an Optomechanical System

George A. Brawley, Michael Ross Vanner, Warwick P. Bowen, Silvan Schmid, Anja Boisen

Published Mar 4, 2014• 0 citations

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, quadratic measurement of mechanical motion in an optomechanical system. We use this nonlinear measurement to conditionally prepare classical non-Gaussian states of motion of a micro-mechanical oscillator.

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