1. Backaction suppression in levitated optomechanics using reflective boundaries
- Author
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Gajewski, Rafał and Bateman, James
- Subjects
Physics - Optics ,Quantum Physics - Abstract
We show theoretically that the noise due to laser induced backaction acting on a small nanosphere levitated in a standing-wave trap can be considerably reduced by utilising a suitable reflective boundary. We examine the spherical mirror geometry as a case study of this backaction suppression effect, discussing the theoretical and experimental constraints. We study the effects of laser recoil directly, by analysing optical force fluctuations acting on a dipolar particle trapped at the centre of a spherical mirror. We also compute the corresponding measurement imprecision in an interferometric, shot-noise-limited position measurement, using the formalism of Fisher information flow. Our results show that the standing-wave trapping field is necessary for backaction suppression in three dimensions, and they satisfy the Heisenberg limit of detection., Comment: 9 pages with 5 figures, and 5 page supplementary
- Published
- 2024