How to use laser radiative and evanescent interference fields to control movement of the sub-micron objects

Pavel Zemánek, Tomáš Čižmár, Martin Šiler, Veneranda Garcés-Chávez, Kishan Dholakia, Věra Kollárová, Zdeněk Bouchal

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Abstract

We present how to use the transfer of the momentum from the spatially periodic interference field to submicrometer-sized particles. The interference field is obtained by interference of co-propagating nondiffracting beams and counter-propagating nondiffracting and even evanescent fields. These types of trapping fields enable spatial organization of submicrometer-sized objects into one-dimensional arrays containing even thousands of objects, their controlled delivery over a distance of 1 mm, their sorting according to the size of refractive index. Moreover, the particle tracking enables to study the Brownian dynamics, jumps between neighboring optical traps and interactions between the objects. We present a group of new experiments studying particle behavior in such fields.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication15th Czech-Polish-Slovak Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Event15th Czech-Polish-Slovak Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics - Liberec, Czech Republic
Duration: 2006 Sept 112006 Sept 15

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume6609
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

Conference15th Czech-Polish-Slovak Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityLiberec
Period06/9/1106/9/15

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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