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9 September 2019 Spinning, scanning, and other fun tricks with optically levitated microspheres (Conference Presentation)
Giorgio Gratta
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Proceedings Volume 11083, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XVI; 110830R (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2531730
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2019, San Diego, California, United States
Abstract
Over the years, Ashkin's pioneering work on laser trapping of small particles has been exploited to study many phenomena in liquid suspensions, leading to advances in biophysics and polymer science. Could trapping in vacuum lead to advances on a similar scale in fundamental physics? In this talk I will describe work originally intended to improve our ability to test gravity at sub-100um scale. Towards this lofty goal, many manipulation techniques have been developed, some of which are interesting in their own right. The arsenal of tricks being assembled can indeed be applied to solve very hard experimental problems in fundamental physics.
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Giorgio Gratta "Spinning, scanning, and other fun tricks with optically levitated microspheres (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 11083, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XVI, 110830R (9 September 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2531730
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KEYWORDS
Physics
Biophysics
Liquids
Optical trapping
Particles
Polymer science
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