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Optical Transportation and Accumulation of Microparticles by Self-Accelerating Cusp Beams
Physical Review A
  • Weiwei Liu
  • Xiaodong Yang, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Jie Gao, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

Most of the self-accelerating beams have monotonous single-channel bending structures, which greatly limit their applications in many fields such as microscopic imaging and particle manipulation. In this paper, the self-accelerating cusp beams with variable numbers of multichannel bending structures are generated to demonstrate the optical transportation and accumulation of micrometer polystyrene particles. The transportation velocity and optical force profiles of the microparticles moving along the bending channels of cusp beams are analyzed. Parallel particle transportation and particle accumulation manipulation from all the bending channels are further demonstrated. These results will inspire a lot of promising applications for self-accelerating beams especially in three-dimensional optical micromanipulation.

Department(s)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Intelligent Systems Center
Comments
The authors acknowledge support from NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) (Grant No. NNX16AL26G) and the Office of Naval Research (Grant No. N00014-16-1-2408).
Keywords and Phrases
  • Bending structures,
  • Microscopic imaging,
  • Optical micromanipulation,
  • Particle accumulation,
  • Particle manipulation,
  • Particle transportation,
  • Polystyrene particle,
  • Single channels
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2019 The Author(s), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
4-1-2019
Publication Date
01 Apr 2019
Citation Information
Weiwei Liu, Xiaodong Yang and Jie Gao. "Optical Transportation and Accumulation of Microparticles by Self-Accelerating Cusp Beams" Physical Review A Vol. 99 Iss. 4 (2019) ISSN: 2469-9926; 2469-9934
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/xiaodong-yang/163/