Title

Trapping and guiding microparticles with morphing autofocusing Airy beams

Authors

Authors

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

Comments

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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

Recommended Citation

"Trapping and guiding microparticles with morphing autofocusing Airy beams" (2011). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 2166.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/2166