Scaling rules in optomechanical semiconductor micropillars

S. Anguiano, P. Sesin, A. E. Bruchhausen, F. R. Lamberti, I. Favero, M. Esmann, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaître, N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, P. Senellart, and A. Fainstein

Phys. Rev. A 98, 063810 (2018) – Published 6 December 2018

In this work, the authors study the variation in the optomechanical dynamics of micropillar resonators of different sizes. They relate the change in energy and lifetime of mechanical modes with the lateral size of micropillars and establish scaling rules that govern these systems