Interference of the scattered vector light fields from two optically levitated nanoparticles

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11348v1
• Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 14:37:44 GMT
• Title: Interference of the scattered vector light fields from two optically levitated nanoparticles
• Authors: Yuanbin Jin, Jiangwei Yan, Shah Jee Rahman, Xudong Yu, and Jing Zhang
• Abstract summary: We experimentally study the interference of dipole scattered light from two optically levitated nanoparticles in vacuum. This is the first experimental observation of the interference of scattered vector light fields from two dipoles in free space.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We experimentally study the interference of dipole scattered light from two optically levitated nanoparticles in vacuum, which present an environment free of particle-substrate interactions. We illuminate the two trapped nanoparticles with a linearly polarized probe beam orthogonal to the propagation of the trapping laser beams. The scattered light from the nanoparticles are collected by a high numerical aperture (NA) objective lens and imaged. The interference fringes from the scattered vector light for the different dipole orientations in image and Fourier space are observed. Especially, the interference fringes of two scattered light fields with polarization vortex show the {\pi} shift of the interference fringes between inside and outside the center region of the two nanoparticles in the image space. As far as we know, this is the first experimental observation of the interference of scattered vector light fields from two dipoles in free space. This work also provides a simple and direct method to determine the spatial scales between optically levitated nanoparticles by the interference fringes.

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