Patent ID: 7583874

Claim:
An optomechanical system comprising: a first strong-confinement photonic device (SCPD); an optical input port optically coupled to the first SCPD; and a second SCPD optically coupled to the first SCPD and movably positioned with respect to the first SCPD, wherein (i) at least one of the first SCPD or the second SCPD comprises an optical resonator, (ii) an optical mode excited in the input port induces an optical force acting on the second SCPD, and (iii) at a first distance between a location in the first SCPD and a location in the second SCPD, the optical force points towards the location in the first SCPD, and, at a second distance between the location in the first SCPD and the location in the first SCPD, the optical force points away from the location in the first SCPD, the first distance being greater than the second distance.