Giant optical manipulation

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

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    Abstract

    We demonstrate a new principle of optical trapping and manipulation increasing more than 1000 times the manipulation distance by harnessing strong thermal forces while suppressing their stochastic nature with optical vortex beams. Our approach expands optical manipulation of particles into a gas media and provides a full control over trapped particles, including the optical transport and pinpoint positioning of ∼100μm objects over a meter-scale distance with ±10μm accuracy.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number118103
    JournalPhysical Review Letters
    Volume105
    Issue number11
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 10 Sept 2010

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