Using back focal plane interferometry to probe the influence of Zernike aberrations in optical tweezers

作者:Dixon Thomas F; Russell Lachlan W; Andres Arroyo Ana; Reece Peter J*
来源:Optics Letters, 2017, 42(15): 2968-2971.
DOI:10.1364/OL.42.002968

摘要

We experimentally investigate the influence of geometric aberrations in optical tweezers using back focal plane interferometry. We found that the introduction of coma aberrations causes significant modification to the Brownian motion of the trapped particle, producing an apparent cross-coupling between the in-plane aberrated axis and the weaker propagation axis. This coupling is evidenced by the emergence of a second dominant low frequency Lorentzian feature in the position power spectral density. The effect on Brownian motion was confirmed using a secondary unaberrated probe beam, ruling out the possibility of systematic optical effects related to the detection system.

  • 出版日期2017-8-1