A High Cooperativity Silicon Nitride Optomechanical Transducer

Mechanical resonators are a canonical system for the exploration of quantum measurements. Milestones such as cooling to the ground state and generation of squeezed light have been demonstrated, but so far typically at cryogenic temperatures [1] , [2] . Room temperature operation would allow these effects to be observed in simplified experimental setups and potentially enable new applications inside and outside the laboratory. However, at room...