Visible and Entangled
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 3 Story 7 - 4/12/2008

Membrane in a cavity

The picture shows how a laser beam excites a membrane between the two mirrors of an optical cavity. If two membranes were placed in such a cavity, the laser could be used to entangle them. Illustration: Jack Sankey
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Membrane in a cavity. The picture shows how a laser beam excites a membrane between the two mirrors of an optical cavity. If two membranes were placed in such a cavity, the laser could  be used to entangle them.