Optical guiding of absorbing nanoclusters in air. Academic Article

abstract

• We suggest a novel approach in all-optical trapping employing a photophoretic force for manipulation of absorbing particles in open air. We demonstrate experimentally the robust three-dimensional guiding, over the distances of a few millimeters, of agglomerates of carbon nanoparticles with the size spanned from 100 nm to 10 microm, as well as their acceleration up to velocities of 1 cm/sec. We achieve stable positioning and guiding of particles as well as simultaneous trapping of a large number of particles in a dual-beam optical trap created by two counter-propagating and co-rotating optical vortex beams.

authors

• Krolikowski, Wieslaw

published proceedings

• Opt Express

altmetric score

• 10

author list (cited authors)

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

citation count

• 183

complete list of authors

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

publication date

• March 2009

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Optics Express  Journal

keywords

• Air
• Colloids
• Computer-Aided Design
• Equipment Design
• Equipment Failure Analysis
• Micromanipulation
• Nanostructures
• Optical Tweezers
• Particulate Matter
• Reproducibility Of Results
• Sensitivity And Specificity

PubMed Central ID

• 19333344

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/oe.17.005743

start page

• 5743

end page

• 5757

volume

• 17

issue

• 7

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/oe.17.005743