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most citedEnhanced optomechanical coupling between an optically levitated particle and an ultrahigh Q optical microcavity

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quant-ph2025

Interference-enhanced optical force detection of weak light fields using a levitated nanoparticle

Seyed K. Alavi, Youssef Ezzo, Ashik Pulikkathara +1

Optically levitated nanoparticles in vacuum provide a highly sensitive platform for probing weak light-matter interactions. In this work, we present an interference-based method to…

physics.optics2025

Inverse Microparticle Design for Enhanced Optical Trapping and Detection Efficiency in All Six Degrees of Freedom

Moosung Lee, Benjamin A. Stickler, Thomas Pertsch +1

Achieving quantum-limited motional control of optically trapped particles beyond the sub-micrometer scale is an outstanding problem in levitated optomechanics. A key obstacle is so…

physics.optics2025

Efficient, inverse large-scale optimization of diffractive lenses

Marco Gerhardt, Sungkun Hong, Moosung Lee

Scalable photonic optimization holds the promise of significantly enhancing the performance of diffractive lenses across a wide range of photonic applications. However, the high co…

physics.optics2025

Optical levitation of fluorescent silicon carbide nanoparticles in vacuum

Seyed Khalil Alavi, Cheng-I Ho, Iuliia Neumann +4

Levitated optomechanics is an emerging field in quantum science that explores the quantum motion of mesoscopic particles levitated in a vacuum. Expanding this approach to particles…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Compact vacuum levitation and control platform with a single 3D-printed fiber lens

Seyed Khalil Alavi, Jose Manuel Monterrosas Romero, Pavel Ruchka +3

Levitated dielectric particles in a vacuum have emerged as a new platform in quantum science, with applications ranging from precision acceleration and force sensing to testing qua…