Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2023,14, 123–132, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.13
. Through such findings we aim to expand the field of multifrequency AFM with innumerable possibilities leading to improved signal-to-noise ratios, all accessible with no additional hardware.
Keywords: atomic force microscopy; intermodal coupling; nonlinear mechanics; optomechanics; sidebandcooling
. Thus, the mechanical position can be read through the optical cavity. Upon this basic interaction, many emerging kinds of behaviour were found: sidebandcooling down to quantum levels [15][16], parametric amplification [17] before signal detection, state squeezing [18][19][20], and Bogoliubov modes [21
, which would activate intermodal coupling between two or more eigenmodes. With this geometric nonlinearity, we can circumvent the use of tip–sample forces and apply techniques from optomechanics. Sidebandcooling will reduce thermal noise of the fundamental mode. Parametric amplification relies on
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Figure 1:
(a) Schematic drawing of the experimental setup. The cantilever is glued to the macrosized piezo dr...