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High-frequency, resonant acousto-optic modulators fabricated in a MEMS foundry platform
We report the design and characterization of high frequency, resonant
acousto-optic modulators (AOM) in a MEMS foundry process. The doubly-resonant
cavity design, with short () acoustic and optical cavity
lengths, allows us to measure acousto-optic modulation at GHz frequencies with
high modulation efficiency. In contrast to traditional AOMs, these devices rely
on the perturbation induced by the displacement of cavity boundaries, which can
be significantly enhanced in a suspended geometry. This platform can serve as
the building block for fast 2D spatial light modulators (SLM), low-cost
integrated free space optical links and optically enhanced low-noise RF
receivers.Comment: References and Figure 8 update
Luttinger theorem for the strongly correlated Fermi liquid of composite fermions
While an ordinary Fermi sea is perturbatively robust to interactions, the
paradigmatic composite-fermion (CF) Fermi sea arises as a non-perturbative
consequence of emergent gauge fields in a system where there was no Fermi sea
to begin with. A mean-field picture suggests two Fermi seas, of composite
fermions made from electrons or holes in the lowest Landau level, which occupy
different areas away from half filling and thus appear to represent distinct
states. We show that in the microscopic theory of composite fermions, which
satisfies particle-hole symmetry in the lowest Landau level to an excellent
degree, the Fermi wave vectors at filling factors and are the
same, and are generally consistent with the experimental findings of Kamburov
{\em et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 113}, 196801 (2014)]. Our calculations
suggest that the area of the CF Fermi sea may slightly violate the Luttinger
area rule.Comment: 21 pages, 17 figures including supplemental material, published
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