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Optical trapping and manipulation of light-absorbing particles by means of a Hermite–Gaussian laser beam

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Порфирьев А.П., Скиданов Р.В. Оптический захват и манипулирование светопоглощающими частицами с помощью лазерного пучка Эрмита-Гаусса // Оптический журнал. 2015. Т. 82. № 9. С. 16–21.

Porfiriev A.P., Skidanov R.V. Optical trapping and manipulation of light-absorbing particles by means of a Hermite–Gaussian laser beam [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2015. V. 82. № 9. P. 16–21.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

A. P. Porfirev and R. V. Skidanov, "Optical trapping and manipulation of light-absorbing particles by means of a Hermite–Gaussian laser beam," Journal of Optical Technology. 82(9), 587-591 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.82.000587

Abstract:

This paper describes simultaneous optical trapping and displacement of several nonspherical light-absorbing microparticles in air by means of a focused Hermite–Gaussian laser beam (laser mode TEM₁₀, radiation wavelength 457 nm). Agglomerations of carbon nanoparticles are displaced in three dimensions by distances of the order of a millimeter. The structure of the Hermite–Gaussian beam used here made it possible to displace microparticles simultaneously along two parallel trajectories in space.

Keywords:

optical manipulation, optical trapping, Hermite–Gaussian beams, light-absorbing particles, agglomerations of nanoparticles, photophoresis

Acknowledgements:

This work was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Scientific Fund (Grant 14-19-00114).

OCIS codes: 350.4855

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