@article { ISI:000316796000065,
	title = {Optomechanical and photothermal interactions in suspended photonic crystal membranes},
	journal = {OPTICS EXPRESS},
	volume = {21},
	number = {6},
	year = {2013},
	month = {MAR 25},
	pages = {7258-7275},
	publisher = {OPTICAL SOC AMER},
	type = {Article},
	address = {2010 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036 USA},
	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 out-coupling and feature the strongest repulsive optomechanical coupling in any geometry to date (g(OM)/2 pi approximate to -65 GHz/nm). 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 potential applications in low-power mass, force, and refractive-index sensing as well as optomechanical accelerometry. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America},
	issn = {1094-4087},
	doi = {10.1364/OE.21.007258},
	author = {Woolf, David and Hui, Pui-Chuen and Iwase, Eiji and Khan, Mughees and Alejandro W. Rodriguez and Deotare, Parag and Bulu, Irfan and Steven G. Johnson and Federico Capasso and Loncar, Marko}
}
