Particle trapping and conveying using an optical Archimedes’ screw

PLUTO / PLUTO-2 Spatial Light Modulators
Optical Trapping /-Tweezers
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Authors: Barak Hadad and Sahar Froim and Harel Nagar and Tamir Admon and Yaniv Eliezer and Yael Roichman and Alon Bahabad
Abstract:

“Trapping and manipulation of particles using laser beams has become an important tool in diverse fields of research. In recent years, particular interest has been devoted to the problem of conveying optically trapped particles over extended distances either downstream or upstream of the direction of photon momentum flow. Here, we propose and experimentally demonstrate an optical analog of the famous Archimedes’ screw where the rotation of a helical-intensity beam is transferred to the axial motion of optically trapped micrometer-scale, airborne, carbon-based particles. With this optical screw, particles were easily conveyed with controlled velocity and direction, upstream or downstream of the optical flow, over a distance of half a centimeter. Our results offer a very simple optical conveyor that could be adapted to a wide range of optical trapping scenarios.”

Open Access

Publication: Optica
Issue/Year: Optica Vol. 5, Issue 5, pp. 551-556 (2018)
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.5.000551
Link: https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.5.000551

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