Photonic circuits can allow light to be tightly confined on a chip. A clever experiment reveals how this process can be exploited to create optical forces that drive a nanoscale mechanical oscillator.
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Kippenberg, T. Nanomechanics gets the shakes. Nature 456, 458 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456458a
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