Theoretical investigation on the effect of volume fraction in the optical trapping of gold nanoparticles

Stable optical trapping of gold nanoparticles is essential and desirable because of its wide applications in nanotechnology. While several factors have been proposed to affect optical trapping stability, the sample's volume fraction during optical trapping has often been neglected. To address this, by utilizing the effective medium theory, we...

Nonlinear optical trapping effect with reverse saturable absorption

Nonlinear responses of nanoparticles induce enlightening phenomena in optical tweezers. With the gradual increase in optical intensity, effects from saturable absorption (SA) and reverse SA (RSA) arise in sequence and thereby modulate the nonlinear properties of materials. In current nonlinear optical traps, however, the underlying physical...

Multi-Objective Parameter Optimization of Flexible Support System of Optical Mirror

During the processing of an optical mirror, the performance parameters of the bottom support system would affect the surface forming accuracy of the mirror. The traditional bottom support system has a large unadjustable support stiffness, which increases the difficulty of unloading the impact force generated by the grinding disc. In response to...

Determination of steep sidewall angle using polarization-sensitive asymmetric scattering

The sidewall angle (SWA) of a nanostructure exerts influence on the performance of the nanostructure and plays an important role in processing nano-structural chips. It is still a great challenge to determine steep SWAs from far field measurements especially when the SWAs are close to 90°. Here, we propose a far-field detection system to...

Silicon nitride membrane resonators at millikelvin temperatures with quality factors exceeding 10^8

We study the mechanical dissipation of the fundamental mode of millimeter-sized, high quality-factor (Q) metalized silicon nitride membranes at temperatures down to 14?mK using a three-dimensional optomechanical cavity. Below 200?mK, high-Q modes of the membranes show a diverging increase of Q with decreasing temperature, reaching Q=1.27×108Q=1...