| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 238, 2020
EOS Annual Meeting (EOSAM 2020)
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| Article Number | 10003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 2 | |
| Section | Topical Meeting (TOM) 11- Thermal Radiation and Energy Management | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023810003 | |
| Published online | 20 August 2020 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023810003
Optical Resonators based on Casimir Forces -INVITED
1 Institute of Materials Science of Seville, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científícas (CSIC)-Universidad de Sevilla (US), Américo Vespucio 49, 41092 Seville, Spain
2 Departamento de Física de Materiales, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
* Corresponding author: sol.carretero@uam.es
Published online: 20 August 2020
The work here presented demonstrates theoretically that it is possible to create optical resonators based on levitation properties of thin films subjected to repulsive Casimir-Lifshitz forces. Our optical cavity design is made up of commonly found materials, such as silicon oxide, polystyrene or gold, with glycerol as a mediating medium, which supports high Q-factor optical modes at visible frequencies. The balance between flotation and repulsive Casimir-Lifshitz forces in the system allows the fine-tuning of the optical cavity thickness and hence its modes. Finally, we show that well-defined spectral features in the reflectivity allows by indirect means, an accurate prediction of the estimated equilibrium distance at which some part of the optical cavity arrangement levitates.
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