Selective trapping of multiple particles by volume speckle field. Academic Article

abstract

• We suggest a new approach for selective trapping of light absorbing particles in gases by multiple optical bottle-beam-like traps created by volume speckle field. We demonstrate stable simultaneous confinement of a few thousand micro-particles in air with a single lowpower laser beam. The size distribution of trapped particles exhibits a narrow peak near the average size of an optical speckle. Thus, the speckleformed traps act as a sieve with the holes selecting particles of a similar size.

authors

• Krolikowski, Wieslaw

published proceedings

• Opt Express

altmetric score

• 12

author list (cited authors)

• Shvedov, V. G., Rode, A. V., Izdebskaya, Y. V., Desyatnikov, A. S., Krolikowski, W., & Kivshar, Y. S.

citation count

• 85

complete list of authors

• Shvedov, Vladlen G||Rode, Andrei V||Izdebskaya, Yana V||Desyatnikov, Anton S||Krolikowski, Wieslaw||Kivshar, Yuri S

publication date

• February 2010

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Optics Express  Journal

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5108 Quantum Physics

PubMed Central ID

• 20174149

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/OE.18.003137

start page

• 3137

end page

• 3142

volume

• 18

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/oe.18.003137