Optical trapping with focused Airy beams
- 21 December 2010
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 50 (1), 43-49
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.50.000043
Abstract
Airy beams are attractive owing to their two intriguing properties—self-bending and nondiffraction—that are particularly helpful for optical manipulation of particles. We perform theoretical and experimental investigations into the focusing property of Airy beams and provide insight into the trapping ability of tightly focused Airy beams. Experiment on optical tweezers demonstrates that the focused Airy beams can create multiple traps for two-dimensional confining particles, and the stable traps exist in the vicinity of the main intensity lobes in the focused beams. The trapping pattern can be varied with changes in the cross section of the focused beam. The focused Airy beam offers a novel way of optically manipulating microparticles.Keywords
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