OMC Poster Session

[OMCp-14] Fast stroboscopic switching of an optical force acting upon a levitated nanoparticle

*Martin Duchan¹, Martin Šiler¹, Petr Jákl¹, Oto Brzobohatý¹, Radim Filip², Pavel Zemánek¹ (1. Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS, v. v. i., Královopolská 147, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic, 2. Department of Optics, Palacký University, 17. listopadu 1192/12, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic)

We demonstrate an experimental procedure based on a repetitive and sub-microsecond switching of the trapping laser intensity which leads to the squeezing of the phase space probability density distribution of the levitated nanoparticle in vacuum.