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Behaviour of Objects in Structured Light Fields and Low Pressures
Flajšmanová, Jana ; Čižmár, Tomáš (oponent) ; Marago, Onofrio (oponent) ; Zemánek, Pavel (vedoucí práce)
A deeper understanding of behaviour of optically trapped particles reveals underlying physical phenomena arising from the light-matter interaction. We present an explanation of the enhancement of the pulling force acting on optically bound particles in the structured optical field, so--called tractor beam. It is demonstrated that the motion of two optically bound objects in a tractor beam strongly depends on their mutual distance and spatial orientation, which adds an extra flexibility to our ability to control matter with light.\newline Subsequently, the thesis is focused on the optical levitation of a particle in a vacuum. We propose a novel methodology for a characterization of properties of a weakly nonlinear Duffing oscillator represented by an optically levitated nanoparticle. The method is based on averaging recorded trajectories with defined initial positions in the phase space of nanoparticle position and momentum and provides us with the oscillator parameters directly from the recorded motion. Our innovative approach is compared with the commonly used power--spectral--density fitting, and exploiting numerical simulations, we show its applicability even at lower pressures where the nonlinearity starts to play a~significant role.
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Dynamics of Microparticles Optically Trapped in Vacuum
Svak, Vojtěch ; Čižmár, Tomáš (oponent) ; Marago, Onofrio (oponent) ; Brzobohatý, Oto (vedoucí práce)
A microparticle levitating in vacuum only by optical forces constitutes a mechanical system which is extremely well isolated from its environment, including its sources of noise. This unique feature provides the system with outstanding sensitivity on any change of surrounding conditions. We introduce a unique experimental set-up for trapping in vacuum which we built the Institute of scientific instruments of CAS in Brno. Subsequently we provide an experimental study of mechanical effect of circularly polarized light which, contrary to linearly polarized light, generates non-conservative contribution to the optical force field. We follow by presenting observation of optical binding of two particles in free space in vacuum which has never been realised before and show how the inter-particle interaction can be tuned and characterized. In the end we introduce a promissing method for optical force field estimation based on particles stochastic trajectory analysis.
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Behaviour of Objects in Structured Light Fields and Low Pressures
Flajšmanová, Jana ; Čižmár, Tomáš (oponent) ; Marago, Onofrio (oponent) ; Zemánek, Pavel (vedoucí práce)
A deeper understanding of behaviour of optically trapped particles reveals underlying physical phenomena arising from the light-matter interaction. We present an explanation of the enhancement of the pulling force acting on optically bound particles in the structured optical field, so--called tractor beam. It is demonstrated that the motion of two optically bound objects in a tractor beam strongly depends on their mutual distance and spatial orientation, which adds an extra flexibility to our ability to control matter with light.\newline Subsequently, the thesis is focused on the optical levitation of a particle in a vacuum. We propose a novel methodology for a characterization of properties of a weakly nonlinear Duffing oscillator represented by an optically levitated nanoparticle. The method is based on averaging recorded trajectories with defined initial positions in the phase space of nanoparticle position and momentum and provides us with the oscillator parameters directly from the recorded motion. Our innovative approach is compared with the commonly used power--spectral--density fitting, and exploiting numerical simulations, we show its applicability even at lower pressures where the nonlinearity starts to play a~significant role.
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