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Cooling of thermal motion of optically levitated nanoobjects
Zemánková, Tereza ; Flajšmanová, Jana (oponent) ; Jonáš, Alexandr (vedoucí práce)
The master's thesis deals with optical levitation of dielectric nanoparticles and cooling of their thermal motion. By focusing two counter-propagating laser beams, the particle can be stably trapped between the foci of the two beams. By subsequently applying an external electric field to the optically trapped charged particle and properly adjusting the feedback loop, it is possible to remove energy from the particle, reduce its position variance, and thus cool the particle thermal motion. The thesis is divided into three main chapters. The first discusses the theoretical introduction to optical trapping, describes the dynamics of the trapped particle, and connects it to the experimental section. A schematic of the experimental setup, preparation of particles for experiments, detection of the particle position, instructions on how to properly tune the optical setup, and calibration of the data to SI units are described. In the second part, various methods of cooling the thermal motion of an optically levitating particle are presented. Experiments performed with a single captured particle are compared with the theoretical model. In a laser beam with circular profile, the particle was cooled in one axis and the elliptical profile of the beam allowed cooling the thermal motion of the particle in two axes. In the third part, the trapping and interaction of two levitating particles, the formation of normal modes and their subsequent cooling are discussed. The experimentally obtained data are compared with theoretical models.
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