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SUBMITTER: Navarro-Urrios D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5394270 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20170411
Optical nonlinearities, such as thermo-optic mechanisms and free-carrier dispersion, are often considered unwelcome effects in silicon-based resonators and, more specifically, optomechanical cavities, since they affect, for instance, the relative detuning between an optical resonance and the excitation laser. Here, we exploit these nonlinearities and their intercoupling with the mechanical degrees of freedom of a silicon optomechanical nanobeam to unveil a rich set of fundamentally different com ...[more]