Optical levitation is a subfield of optomechanics, in which a nanometer-size particle is trapped in a vacuum chamber at the focal spot of a laser focused through a microscope objective [1]. The laser beam produces an optical force equivalent to a mechanical spring and the system can be regarded as a simple mass-spring resonator displaying pristine vibrational oscillations in the kHz regime. Becaupar nicolas.bachelard - Thèses hors de l'EDPIF
Supervisor: Nicolas Bachelard (nicolas.bachelard@gmail.com or nicolas.bachelard@u-bordeaux.fr) Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine (Bordeaux, France). Project: Optical levitation is a subfield of optomechanics, in which a nanometer-size particle is trapped in a vacuum chamber at the focal spot of a laser focused through a microscope objective. The laser beam produces an optical forcpar nicolas.bachelard - Thèses hors de l'EDPIF