OPTICAL TRAPPING OF MICROSCOPIC METAL PARTICLES

被引:131
作者
SATO, S
HARADA, Y
WASEDA, Y
机构
[1] nstitute for Advanced Materials Processing, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-77
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D O I
10.1364/OL.19.001807
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The optical trapping of microscopic metal particles with a fixed Nd:YAG laser beam of TEM(00) and TEM(01)* modes is demonstrated. Three kinds of metal particles (bronze, silver, and gold) used in the experiments were trapped two-dimensionally only when the laser beam focus was located near the bottom of the particle. Consideration of a simple model on the basis of ray optics indicates that a fixed single beam itself can produce a force that will pull the particle into the beam axis. A linear focal pattern also was applied to trap several particles simultaneously.
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页码:1807 / 1809
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