A Stable Optical Trap from a Single Optical Field Utilizing Birefringence
Optics
2016-11-23 v2 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We report a stable double optical spring effect in an optical cavity pumped with a single optical field that arises as a result of birefringence. One end of the cavity is formed by a multilayer AlGaAs/GaAs stack supported by a microfabricated cantilever, with a natural mode frequency of Hz. The optical spring shifts the resonance to kHz, corresponding to a suppression of low frequency vibrations by a factor of more than . The stable nature of the optical trap allows the cavity to be operated without any external feedback and with only a single optical field incident.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1606.01839,
title = {A Stable Optical Trap from a Single Optical Field Utilizing Birefringence},
author = {Robinjeet Singh and Garrett D. Cole and Jonathan Cripe and Thomas Corbitt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.01839},
year = {2016}
}