Optical guiding of absorbing nanoclusters in air
Optics
2015-05-13 v1 Materials Science
Abstract
We introduce a novel approach for all-optical trapping and manipulation of absorbing aerosol particles based on a photophoretic force. We demonstrate experimentally, in open air, the robust three-dimensional guiding of agglomerates of carbon nanoparticles with the size spanned for two orders of magnitude, from 100 nanometers to 10 microns, over the distances of a few millimeters, as well as their acceleration up to velocities of 1 cm/s and simultaneous trapping of a large number of particles.
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@article{arxiv.0902.1205,
title = {Optical guiding of absorbing nanoclusters in air},
author = {Vladlen G. Shvedov and Anton S. Desyatnikov and Andrei V. Rode and Wieslaw Z. Krolikowski and Yuri S. Kivshar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.1205},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages including 8 figures. First presented at SPIE Conference 7038 on Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation V, San Diego, USA, 13 August 2008, paper 7038-69