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Photonics: Nanomechanics gets the shakes
Tobias J. Kippenberg1
Abstract
Photonic circuits can allow light to be tightly confined on a chip. A clever experiment reveals how this process can be exploited to create optical forces that drive a nanoscale mechanical oscillator.
In the 1970s, Arthur Ashkin at Bell Laboratories showed1 that the force that light exerts on an object — the radiation pressure force — can be used to trap particles. This discovery has led to a revolution in the use of lasers to trap objects ranging from atoms to biological cells.
- Tobias J. Kippenberg is at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, and is partially affiliated with the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany.
Email: tobias.kippenberg@epfl.ch
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