Trapping and guiding microparticles with morphing autofocusing Airy beams

    Authors

    P. Zhang; J. Prakash; Z. Zhang; M. S. Mills; N. K. Efremidis; D. N. Christodoulides;Z. G. Chen

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    GENERATION; WAVES; Optics

    Abstract

    We observe optical trapping and manipulation of dielectric microparticles using autofocusing radially symmetric Airy beams. This is accomplished by exploiting either the inward or outward transverse acceleration associated with their chirped wavefronts. We experimentally demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, that such Airy beams morph into nondiffracting Bessel beams in their far-field. Furthermore, the ability of guiding and transporting microparticles along the primary rings of this class of beams is explored. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    36

    Issue/Number

    15

    Publication Date

    1-1-2011

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    2883

    Last Page

    2885

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000293888000046

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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