Abstract

Following pioneering experiments at a more macroscopic scale [1,2], optomechanical systems based on nanophotonic devices are now advancing the art of precision motion measurement, quantum control and nanomechanical sensing [3,4]. In this context optically active semiconductors like Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) offer original assets: the possibility to employ optical gain to tune optomechanical interactions, the possibility to engineer optomechanical heterostructures with atomically perfect interfaces, and the compliance with optoelectronics functionalities.

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