Rotation induced cooling of an optically trapped microgyroscope in vacuum

Yoshihiko Arita; Michael Mazilu; Kishan Dholakia

Rotation induced cooling of an optically trapped microgyroscope in vacuum

Yoshihiko Arita^*, Michael Mazilu, Kishan Dholakia

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We demonstrate optical trapping of a microgyroscope rotating at MHz rates in vacuum. The particle is cooled to 40K. This is a major step towards measuring the Casimir force resulting in rotational quantum friction.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
Publisher	Optical Society of American (OSA)
ISBN (Print)	9781557529992
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, CLEO_QELS 2014 - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: 8 Jun 2014 → 13 Jun 2014

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Conference	CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, CLEO_QELS 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose, CA
Period	8/06/14 → 13/06/14

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Rotation induced cooling of an optically trapped microgyroscope in vacuum

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