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Optical levitation of arrays of microspheres

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The authors introduce a new method for the defect-free trapping of larger arrays of dielectric particles, allowing to address and control each of them separately. The approach presents a valuable contribution to the experimental toolbox for optomechanical experiments using dielectric particles and lays the basis for future experiments once some of the remaining experimental challenges described in the manuscript are addressed.

Source: Physical Review A

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.111.033514

Authors: Benjamin Siegel, Gadi Afek, Cecily Lowe, Jiaxiang Wang, Yu-Han Tseng, T. W. Penny, David C. Moore

Institution: Yale University

Language: English

Topic: Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Office of Naval Research

Awards: G1389377414, Research - University of Warwick (2023), PM: Precision Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model Using Optically Levitated Mcrospheres, Macroscopic Superpositions Towards Witnessing the Quantum Nature of Gravity (MAST-QG), G5777601028, G8876996369

OpenAlex ID: W4408505280

FWCI: 3.314

Cites: 101

Cited by: 9

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