Temperature enhanced photothermal cooling of a micro-cantilever

Abstract

We present a temperature enhanced photothermal cooling scheme in a micro-cantilever based FP cavity. Experiments at various temperatures show a temperature dependence of photothermal cooling efficiency. And approximate one order of improvement on the cooling efficiency is achieved experimentally when the temperature decreases from 298 K to 100 K. Numerical analysis reveals that the dramatic change of the cooling efficiency is attributed to the temperature dependent dynamics of the photothermal backaction. A high efficient cooling can be achieved by controlling the temperature for an optimized the dynamics of photothermal backaction.