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Role of a Quarter-Wave Plate in Confocal Microscopy: Signature of Spin-Orbit Interactions
Wenze Lan, Anton Lögl, Meryem Benelajla +3
Spin-orbit interactions of light couple polarization and spatial degrees of freedom, underpinning phenomena such as the spin Hall effect of light. Although widely explored at inter…
The physical origins of extreme cross-polarization extinction in confocal microscopy
Meryem Benelajla, Elena Kammann, Bernhard Urbaszek +1
Confocal microscopy is an essential imaging tool for biological systems, in solid-state physics and nano-photonics. Using confocal microscopes allows performing resonant fluorescen…
Cavity nano-optomechanics: a nanomechanical system in a high finesse optical cavity
Sebastian Stapfner, Ivan Favero, David Hunger +4
The coupling of mechanical oscillators with light has seen a recent surge of interest, as recent reviews report.[1, 2] This coupling is enhanced when confining light in an optical…
Fluctuating nanomechanical systems in a high finesse optical microcavity
I. Favero, S. Stapfner, D. Hunger +5
Confining a laser field between two high reflectivity mirrors of a high-finesse cavity can increase the probability of a given cavity photon to be scattered by an atom traversing t…
Cavity cooling of a nanomechanical resonator by light scattering
Ivan Favero, Khaled Karrai
We present a novel method for opto-mechanical cooling of sub-wavelength sized nanomechanical resonators. Our scheme uses a high finesse Fabry-Perot cavity of small mode volume, wit…