%0 Journal Article
%T Cooling of a mirror by radiation pressure
%A P. F. Cohadon
%A A. Heidmann
%A M. Pinard
%J Physics
%D 1999
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3174
%X We describe an experiment in which a mirror is cooled by the radiation pressure of light. A high-finesse optical cavity with a mirror coated on a mechanical resonator is used as an optomechanical sensor of the Brownian motion of the mirror. A feedback mechanism controls this motion via the radiation pressure of a laser beam reflected on the mirror. We have observed either a cooling or a heating of the mirror, depending on the gain of the feedback loop.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9903094v2