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Photonic Micro-Electromechanical Systems Vibrating at X-band (11-GHz) Rates.

Science, Newsfocus: Optics, " Putting Light’s Light Touch to Work As Optics Meets Mechanics ". Link.
Tomes, & Carmon.
" Photonic Micro-Electromechanical Systems Vibrating at X-band (11-GHz) Rates "
Physical Review Letters, 102, 113601 (2009).

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Visible continuous emission from a silica microphotonic device
by third harmonic generation.

Nature Photonics, News and views: Microphotonics, "Toroid of many colours". Link.
Carmon, & Vahala.
"Visible continuous emission from a silica microphotonic device by third harmonic generation"
Nature Physics, 3, 470 (2007).

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Modal Spectroscopy and Higher than GHz Vibrations in Photonic Device.

Nature Photonics, News and views: Optomechanical Physics, "Good Vibrations". Link.
Physical Review Letter, Cover: Carmon and Vahala. "Micrograph of an on-chip optomechanical resonator with one of its calculated mechanical eigenmodes in the foreground. The mechanical mode and the optical mode are coupled via the centrifugal radiation pressure applied by the light circulating inside this photonic device". Link.
Peer review publications on this topic:
Carmon, & Vahala.
"Modal Spectroscopy of Optoexcited Vibrations of a Micron-Scale On-Chip Resonator at Greater than 1 GHz Frequency".
Physical Review Letters 98, 123901 (2007).

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Mechanical Vibrations of an Optical Cavity

Generated by the Centrifugal Radiation Pressure

CLEO 2005: Carmon et. al. talk at he Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2005 was selected as one of the 10 most interesting talks at this conference which reflects being at the top 1% of accepted talks. Link
Science: A. Cho, "Light sets tiny objects aquiver", July, 2005. Link
Optics and Photonics News: J. Hecht, "Turning cutting-edge optical technology into practical applications", May 2005.
Caltech Today: R. Tindol, "Caltech scientists create tiny photon clock", August 2005.
Peer review publications on this topic:
Carmon, T., Rokhsari, H., Yang, L., Kippenberg, T.J. & Vahala, K.J.
"Temporal behavior of radiation-pressure-induced vibrations of an optical microcavity phonon mode".
Physical Review Letters 94, 223902 (2005).
Rokhsari, H., Kippenberg, T.J., Carmon, T. & Vahala, K.J.
"Radiation-pressure-driven micro-mechanical oscillator".
Optics Express 13, 5293 (2005).
Kippenberg, T.J., Rokhsari, H., Carmon, T., Scherer, A. & Vahala, K.J
"Analysis of radiation-pressure induced mechanical oscillation of an optical microcavity".
Physical Review Letters 95, 033901 (2005).

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Spontaneous Pattern Formation with Incoherent White Light

Physics Today: Spontaneous pattern formation with incoherent white light, December 2004.
Peer review publication on this topic:
Schwartz, T., Carmon, T., Buljan, H. & Segev, M.
"Spontaneous pattern formation with incoherent white light".
Physical Review Letters 93, 223901 (2004).