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Radiation pressure measurement using a macroscopic oscillator in an ambient environment

Optics 2020-11-25 v2 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

In contrast to current efforts to quantify the radiation pressure of light using nano-micromechanical resonators in cryogenic conditions, we proposed and experimentally demonstrated the radiation pressure measurement in ambient conditions by utilizing a macroscopic mechanical longitudinal oscillator with an effective mass of the order of 20 g. The light pressure on a mirror attached to the oscillator was recorded in a Michelson interferometer and results showed, within the experimental accuracy of 3.9%, a good agreement with the harmonic oscillator model without free parameters.

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@article{arxiv.2005.11822,
  title  = {Radiation pressure measurement using a macroscopic oscillator in an ambient environment},
  author = {Mikko Partanen and Hyeonwoo Lee and Kyunghwan Oh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.11822},
  year   = {2020}
}