%0 Journal Article
%T Cavity piezooptomechanics: piezoelectrically excited, optically transduced optomechanical resonators
%A Chi Xiong
%A Linran Fan
%A Xiankai Sun
%A Hong X. Tang
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%R 10.1063/1.4788724
%X We present a monolithic integrated aluminum nitride (AlN) optomechanical resonator in which the mechanical motion is actuated by piezoelectric force and the displacement is transduced by a high-Q optical cavity. The AlN optomechanical resonator is excited from a radio-frequency electrode via a small air gap to eliminate resonator-to-electrode loss. We observe the electrically excited mechanical motion at 47.3 MHz, 1.04 GHz, and 3.12 GHz, corresponding to the 1st, 2nd, and 4th radial-contour mode of the wheel resonator respectively. An equivalent circuit model is developed to describe the observed Fano-like resonance spectrum.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6333v1