"Optical trapping and manipulation in liquid, air and vacuum: new perspectives"

by Prof. Kishan Dholakia (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews, Scotland)

Thursday 2 May 2013, 16:00 → 17:00 Asia/Kolkata

AG-66, Lecture Theatre (Colaba Campus)

This talk will describe the basics of manipulation of mesoscopic particles in liquid and then progress, in particular, to describe recent work on trapping in air and vacuum. For the latter case, this offers the prospect of trapping and cooling to the quantum ground state and exploring concepts such as rotational vacuum friction.