Optical binding of two cooled micro-gyroscopes levitated in vacuum

by Jonathan Nylk | Jun 15, 2018 | 2018

Yoshihiko Arita, Ewan M. Wright and Kishan Dholakia Optica 5(8), 910-917 (2018) doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.5.000910 Coupling between mesoscopic particles levitated in vacuum is a prerequisite for the realisation of a large scale array of particles in an underdamped...

Dynamics of a microparticle levitated in vacuum by an optical vortex beam

by Jonathan Nylk | Jun 4, 2018 | 2018

Yoshihiko Arita and Kishan Dholakia Review of Laser Engineering 46(6), 192-195 (2018) http://jglobal.jst.go.jp/en/public/20090422/201802267334177678 Levitated optomechanics is an emerging area of study enabled by optically trapped mesoscopic particles in vacuum. This...

Dynamics of a levitated microparticle in vacuum trapped by a perfect vortex beam: three dimensional motion around a complex optical potential

by Jonathan Nylk | Apr 5, 2017 | 2017

Yoshihiko Arita, Mingzhou Chen, Ewan M. Wright, and Kishan Dholakia Journal of the Optical Society of America B 34(6), C14-C19 (2017) doi: 10.1364/JOSAB.34.000C14 We trap a single silica microparticle in a complex three dimensional optical potential with orbital...

Rotation of two trapped microparticles in vacuum: observation of optically mediated parametric resonances

by Jonathan Nylk | Jan 10, 2015 | 2015

Yoshihiko Arita, Michael Mazilu, Tom Vettenburg, Ewan M. Wright, and Kishan Dholakia Optics Letters 40(20), 4751-4754 (2015) doi: 10.1364/OL.40.004751 We demonstrate trapping and rotation of two mesoscopic particles in vacuum using a spatial-light-modulator-based...

Laser-induced rotation and cooling of a trapped microgyroscope in vacuum

by Jonathan Nylk | Jan 11, 2013 | 2013

Y. Arita, M. Mazilu, and K. Dholakia Nature Communications 4, 2374 (2013) doi: 10.1038/ncomms3374 Quantum state preparation of mesoscopic objects is a powerful playground for the elucidation of many physical principles. The field of cavity optomechanics aims to create...