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H2020Doctoral network2016–2020

OMT · Optomechanical Technologies

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2016-10-01 → 2020-09-30
EU contribution
€3,897,443
Participants
17
Scheme
MSCA-ITN-ETN

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Results in brief

OMT - Optomechanical Technologies

Nano- and micromechanical oscillators are in our information age indispensable technologies that enable navigation, timing, motional sensing and wireless communication. MEMS sensors measure rotation or acceleration and are embedded in any modern cell phone, plane or car. Mechanical oscillators have unique advantages over electronic counterparts. For example, their high quality factor have in recent years made mechanical oscillators part of any modern cell phone for radiofrequency filtering (FBAR-technology). In the past decade, a technological and scientific revolution has taken place around the optical and quantum control of such NEMS and MEMS devices; they can now be read out and controlled at the quantum level using light via radiation pressure within the field of Cavity Optomechanics. Mechanical oscillators can now reach a regime where they follow the laws of quantum mechanics. Exploring this regime opens opportunities ranging from the generation of non-classical states of a macroscopic oscillator, to the entanglement of light and vibrations, to the realization of transducers based on mechanical oscillators and the storage of quantum states in low-loss mechanical modes. OMT performs research on how to create new technologies based on optomechanical Physics. It aims to advance the state of the art in the field by pursuing several objectives: (i) Optomechanical devices with novel 2D materials (ii) Dissipative optomechanical systems for low noise amplification and novel non-reciprocal microwave components (iii) Chip-scale microwave to optical conversion schemes (iv) Theoretical possibilities for optomechanical multi-mode structures

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Project objective

The proposed project is built on the successful training and research experience of the leading European research groupsworking in the field of cavity optomechanics. Our ENT unites a total of 14 leading groups in the field, of which two are major industrial players that utilize MEMS and NEMS - Bosch and IBM. The main goal of the project is to exploit optomechanical interactions in views of novel functionality and possible applications of cavity optomechanical systems that were envisioned by consortium partners during their previous research activities. The possible applications include for instance MEMS sensors based on two-dimensional materials like graphene, quantum limited microwave amplifiers, and low noise optical to microwave frequency photon converters. While the majority of the experiments will firmly reside in the realm of classical, albeit weak, signals or fields, the aspired performance will also allow exploiting schemes in scenarios where quantum nature of the signal is relevant.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · LausanneCoordinatorSwitzerland
  • AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · EspooFinland
  • ATTOCUBE SYSTEMS GmbH · HaarGermany
  • BLUEFORS OY · HelsinkiFinland
  • CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · ParisFrance
  • FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG · ErlangenGermany
  • IBM RESEARCH GMBH · RUESCHLIKONSwitzerland
  • KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · KOBENHAVNDenmark
  • ROBERT BOSCH GMBH · Gerlingen-SchillerhoeheGermany
  • SORBONNE UNIVERSITE · ParisFrance
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · DelftNetherlands
  • THALES · MEUDONFrance
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CAMERINO · CamerinoItaly
  • UNIVERSITAT KONSTANZ · KonstanzGermany
  • UNIVERSITAT WIEN · WienAustria
  • UNIVERSITEIT GENT · GentBelgium
  • UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG · HamburgGermany

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union