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Optical Mirror from Laser-Trapped Mesoscopic Particles

Grzegorczyk, Tomasz M.
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Rohner, Johann  
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Fournier, Jean-Marc
2014
Physical Review Letters

Trapping of mesoscopic particles by optical forces usually relies on the gradient force, whereby particles are attracted into optical wells formed by landscaping the intensity of an optical field. This is most often achieved by optical Gaussian beams, interference patterns, general phase contrast methods, or other mechanisms. Hence, although the simultaneous trapping of several hundreds of particles can be achieved, these particles remain mostly independent with negligible interaction. Optical matter, however, relies on close packing and binding forces, with fundamentally different electrodynamic properties. In this Letter, we build ensembles of optically bound particles to realize a reflective surface that can be used to image an object or to focus a light beam. To our knowledge, this is the first experimental proof of the creation of a mirror by optical matter, and represents an important step toward the realization of a laser-trapped mirror (LTM) in space. From a theoretical point of view, optically bound close packing requires an exact solver of Maxwell's equations in order to precisely compute the field scattered by the collection of particles. Such rigorous calculations have been developed and are used here to study the focusing and resolving power of an LTM.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.023902
Web of Science ID

WOS:000331940300004

Author(s)
Grzegorczyk, Tomasz M.
Rohner, Johann  
Fournier, Jean-Marc
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

Amer Physical Soc

Published in
Physical Review Letters
Volume

112

Issue

2

Article Number

023902

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REVIEWED

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June 16, 2014
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