Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 51, Issue 8, 240040(2024)

Torsion pendulum design for metasurface-based diffraction light sail optical force measurement

Pan Gong1...2,3,4, Anbin Du1,2,3, Fei Zhang1,2,3, Mingbo Pu1,2,3,4, Tuojiang Tang1,2,3,4, Lanting Li5, and Xiangang Luo1,24,* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1National Key Laboratory of Optical Field Manipulation Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan 610209, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan 610209, China
  • 3Research Center on Vector Optical Fields, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan 610209, China
  • 4College of Materials Sciences and Opto-Electronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 5Tianfu Xinglong Lake Laboratory, Chengdu, Sichuan 610299, China
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    When a vector optical field acts on the metasurface-based diffractive light sail, the maximum acceleration, self-stabilizing thrust, and attitude controllability of the diffractive light sail can be enhanced. In a vacuum environment, it is important to measure the optical force acting on the diffraction light sail to establish a comprehensive space dynamics model under the influence of vector optical fields. Based on the weak force measurement technique, we have designed an optical force measurement torsion pendulum for both regular and irregular shaped diffraction light sails. The measurement accuracy of regular-shaped light sails can be enhanced by ensuring that the size of the torsion pendulum and relative position errors of each component are strictly controlled. The force measurement has a relative error of 0.55‰. We have also designed a torsion pendulum to measure the optical force of the irregular-shaped light sails, which can hardly calculate the moment of inertia. There are two standard spheres on the torsion pendulum that can be placed or removed at any time. The magnitude of the optical force acting on the complex object can be measured by calculating the moment of inertia of the spheres. This research enhances the efficiency and flexibility of optical force measurement experiments, providing data support for applications such as laser-driven light sail and space debris remediation.

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    Pan Gong, Anbin Du, Fei Zhang, Mingbo Pu, Tuojiang Tang, Lanting Li, Xiangang Luo. Torsion pendulum design for metasurface-based diffraction light sail optical force measurement[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2024, 51(8): 240040

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    Category: Article

    Received: Feb. 26, 2024

    Accepted: Apr. 24, 2024

    Published Online: Nov. 12, 2024

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    DOI:10.12086/oee.2024.240040

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