Partanen , M , Lee , H & Oh , K 2020 , ' Radiation pressure measurement using a macroscopic oscillator in an ambient environment ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 10 , no. 1 , 20419 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77295-5
Abstract:
In contrast to current efforts to quantify the radiation pressure of light using nano-micromechanical resonators in cryogenic conditions, we proposed and experimentally demonstrated the radiation pressure measurement in ambient conditions by utilizing a macroscopic mechanical longitudinal oscillator with an effective mass of the order of 20 g. The light pressure on a mirror attached to the oscillator was recorded in a Michelson interferometer and results showed, within the experimental accuracy of 3.9%, a good agreement with the harmonic oscillator model without free parameters.