Interaction between photons and phonons in cavity optomechanical systems provides a new toolbox for quantum information technologies. A GaAs/AlAs pillar multi-optical mode microcavity optomechanical structure can obtain phonons with ultra-high frequency (~THz). However, the optical field cannot be effectively restricted when the diameter of the GaAs/AlAs pillar microcavity decreases below the diffraction limit of light. Here, we design a system that combines Ag nanocavity with GaAs/AlAs phononic superlattices, where phonons with the frequency of 4.2 THz can be confined in a pillar with ~4 nm diameter. The Q_c/V reaches 0.22 nm^?3, which is ~80 times that of the photonic crystal (PhC) nanobeam and ~100 times that of the hybrid point-defect PhC bowtie plasmonic nanocavity, where Q_c is optical quality factor and V is mode volume. The optomechanical single-photon coupling strength can reach 12 MHz, which is an order of magnitude larger than that of the PhC nanobeam. In addition, the mechanical zero-point fluctuation amplitude is 85 fm and the efficient mass is 0.27 zg, which is much smaller than the PhC nanobeam. The phononic superlattice-Ag nanocavity optomechanical devices hold great potential for applications in the field of integrated quantum optomechanics, quantum information, and terahertz-light transducer.

为满足红外探测系统对大视场、轻量化、低成本的需求，设计并研制了一款用于制冷型红外探测器的自由曲面离轴四反全铝光机系统。光学设计采用具有实出瞳的离轴无遮拦全反射式光路形式，并利用7次XY多项式表征各反射镜面型。在紧凑包络约束下，实现了6.25°×5°的视场角，全视场RMS几何弥散斑半径＜6.0 μm。各反射镜和支撑结构材料均选用6061-T651铝合金，各反射镜进行了柔性支撑设计，以降低装调时的刚性连接应力。采用激光干涉仪对光机系统波像差进行了测试，典型视场波像差＜RMS 0.7λ@632.8 nm。相比传统的离轴反射系统，文中系统采用“全自由曲面+全铝光机”新构型，能够用更紧凑的包络实现更大视场，且整机具有轻量化、低成本以及无热化的特点，在红外探测领域具有重要应用前景。

悬浮光力传感技术利用真空环境的光阱实现对微纳尺度机械振子的悬浮和囚禁，将待测物理量转换为光悬浮机械振子运动参数的变化，理论上该振子与外部环境热噪声和振动完全隔绝，具有极高的测量分辨率潜力和易于小型化的独特优势。该技术在精密测量、微观热力学研究、暗物质观测、宏观量子态操控等领域具有广阔的应用前景。首先，阐述了悬浮光力系统中光力与光阱的基础概念和力学测量等基本理论；其次，介绍了其中初始起支、光力增强、位移测量、输出信号标定和等效反馈冷却等关键技术的研究进展，对比分析各子技术的特点，随后列举了悬浮光力传感技术在极弱力、加速度、微观质量、电学量、力矩等物理量测量中的典型应用；最后，总结了该技术的发展趋势，并提出相关建议。

The optical angular momentum is ubiquitous to the science of light, especially whenever the polarization state and the spatial distribution of the phase are involved, which are most often associated with the spin and orbital parts of the total angular momentum, respectively. Notably, the independent introduction of these two contributions to the total optical angular momentum was accompanied by suggestions regarding the possible detection of their mechanical effects using a torsion pendulum. Today, the classical and quantum mechanical aspects of spin and orbital angular momentum of light and their mutual coupling remain active research topics offering exciting perspectives for photonic technologies. Our brief historical overview shows how the torsion pendulum has accompanied scientific advances on mechanical effects based on the angular degrees of freedom of light since Beth’s pioneering contribution published in 1935.

Modern information networks are built on hybrid systems working at disparate optical wavelengths. Coherent interconnects for converting photons between different wavelengths are highly desired. Although coherent interconnects have conventionally been realized with nonlinear optical effects, those systems require demanding experimental conditions, such as phase matching and/or cavity enhancement, which not only bring difficulties in experimental implementation but also set a narrow tuning bandwidth (typically in the MHz to GHz range as determined by the cavity linewidth). Here, we propose and experimentally demonstrate coherent information transfer between two orthogonally propagating light beams of disparate wavelengths in a fiber-based optomechanical system, which does not require phase matching or cavity enhancement of the pump beam. The coherent process is demonstrated by interference phenomena similar to optomechanically induced transparency and absorption. Our scheme not only significantly simplifies the experimental implementation of coherent wavelength conversion but also extends the tuning bandwidth to that of an optical fiber (tens of THz), which will enable a broad range of coherent-optics-based applications, such as optical sensing, spectroscopy, and communication.

The design and the early commissioning of the ELI-Beamlines laser facility’s 30 J, 30 fs, 10 Hz HAPLS (High-repetition-rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System) beam transport (BT) system to the P3 target chamber are described in detail. It is the world’s first and with 54 m length, the longest distance high average power petawatt (PW) BT system ever built. It connects the HAPLS pulse compressor via the injector periscope with the 4.5 m diameter P3 target chamber of the plasma physics group in hall E3. It is the largest target chamber of the facility and was connected first to the BT system. The major engineering challenges are the required high vibration stability mirror support structures, the high pointing stability optomechanics as well as the required levels for chemical and particle cleanliness of the vacuum vessels to preserve the high laser damage threshold of the dielectrically coated high-power mirrors. A first commissioning experiment at low pulse energy shows the full functionality of the BT system to P3 and the novel experimental infrastructure.