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ArticleNature communications2023

Mechanical overtone frequency combs.

Matthijs H J de Jong, Adarsh Ganesan, Andrea Cupertino, Simon Gröblacher, Richard A Norte

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Customized Itinerant Frequency Combs by Cascaded Nonlinear Effects.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  6. NEMS generated electromechanical frequency combs.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2025
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5 authors.

Matthijs H J de JongDepartment of Precision and Microsystems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628CD, Delft, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0146-083X
Adarsh GanesanAhmedabad University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 380009, India.
Andrea CupertinoDepartment of Precision and Microsystems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628CD, Delft, The Netherlands.
Simon GröblacherKavli Institute of Nanoscience, Department of Quantum Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628CJ, Delft, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3932-7820
Richard A NorteDepartment of Precision and Microsystems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628CD, Delft, The Netherlands. r.a.norte@tudelft.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1458-5735

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mechanical frequency combs are poised to bring the applications and utility of optical frequency combs into the mechanical domain. So far, their main challenge has been strict requirements on drive frequencies and power, which complicate operation. We demonstrate a straightforward mechanism to create a frequency comb consisting of mechanical overtones (integer multiples) of a single eigenfrequency, by monolithically integrating a suspended dielectric membrane with a counter-propagating optical trap. The periodic optical field modulates the dielectrophoretic force on the membrane at the overtones of a membrane's motion. These overtones share a fixed frequency and phase relation, and constitute a mechanical frequency comb. The periodic optical field also creates an optothermal parametric drive that requires no additional power or external frequency reference. This combination of effects results in an easy-to-use mechanical frequency comb platform that requires no precise alignment, no additional feedback or control electronics, and only uses a single, mW continuous wave laser beam. This highlights the overtone frequency comb as the straightforward future for applications in sensing, metrology and quantum acoustics.

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