Distributed Bragg reflector based semiconductor resonators constitute paradigmatic systems where cavity optomechanical and optoelectronic phenomena can be simultaneously active in the same device. High GHz range mechanical frequencies and ultrastrong optomechanical couplings are additional attractive features for applications. We report here a detailed spectroscopic study of the fundamental optomechanical resonances of such a device. The existent challenge to study vibrational frequencies that are above the bandwidth of current electronics is solved using a purposely made tandem Fabry-Perot-triple spectrometer. A full theoretical description of the Raman process including electronic, vibrational, and optical confinement is presented to describe the experiments. These results open the path for the demonstration of polariton optomechanical phenomena in these devices.Distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) based microcavities combine the richness of novel optomechanical resonator phenomena [1-11], i.e., optomechanical nonlinearities, laser cooling [12][13][14][15], and phonon lasing [16,17], with the world of cavity optoelectronics, including controlled light emission and single-photon emitters [18], lasing [19,20], and polariton condensation [21].For the GaAs/AlAs family of materials a resonator structure based on distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) and designed to confine photons (i.e., an optical microcavity) efficiently confines acoustic phonons of the same wavelength, strongly enhancing their interaction [22,23]. Indeed, a "magic coincidence" determines that the materials index of refraction, mass density, and sound speed, the physical quantities that determine the optical and acoustic device performance, are such that precisely the same structure designed to optimally confine light with the largest optical Q factor (that is, field amplification) will optimally confine the phonons with the largest attainable acoustic Q factor (that is, resonant displacement and strain). These structures constitute optomechanical devices that can attain very high mechanical and optical Q factors (Q ∼ 10 5 ), very low mechanical effective masses (m eff ∼ pg), large optomechanical coupling factors (g om ∼ THz/nm), and ultrahigh vibrational frequencies (sub-THz) [22]. Based on the demonstrated record optomechanical coupling it was predicted that stimulated emission of GHz phonons should occur in pillars of a few micrometers diameter under laser pump powers in the micro-milliwatt range. Quite interestingly, the studied planar microcavities based on DBRs can be designed so that, even with almost perfect mirrors, the phonon extraction out of the cavity is highly efficient.One central feature to these unique DRB-based GaAs/AlAs optomechanical resonators is that precisely the same kind of structure is canonical to optoelectronic phenomena. In fact, the studied devices are based on the semiconductor vertical microcavity structures developed to demonstrate single-photon emitters, polariton condensates, and vertical * afains@cab.cnea.gov.ar cavi...