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Optical frequency tweezers

Optics 2022-04-04 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We show a concept of optical frequency tweezers for tweezing light in the optical frequency domain with a high resolution, which is the frequency version of the optical tweezers for spatial manipulation of microscopic objects. We report the proof-of-principle experiment via frequency conversion inside a cavity only for the converted light. Thanks to the atypical configuration, the experimental result successfully achieves the tweezing operation in the frequency domain, which picks a light at a target frequency from the frequency-multiplexed input light and converts to a different frequency, without touching any other light sitting in different frequency positions and shaking frequency by the pump light.

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@article{arxiv.2109.05730,
  title  = {Optical frequency tweezers},
  author = {Rikizo Ikuta and Masayo Yokota and Toshiki Kobayashi and Nobuyuki Imoto and Takashi Yamamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.05730},
  year   = {2022}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures

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