Optical Levitation in a Bessel Light Beam

V Garcés-Chávez; D Roskey; MD Summers; H Melville; David McGloin; EM Wright; Kishan Dholakia

doi:10.1063/1.1814820

Optical Levitation in a Bessel Light Beam

V Garcés-Chávez, D Roskey, MD Summers, H Melville, David McGloin, EM Wright, Kishan Dholakia

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A vertically oriented zero order Bessel light beam is shown to create a one-dimensional array of trapped particles over extended (millimeter) distances. The particles take up equilibrium positions over the entire length of the beam and this is a consequence of the interplay between optical scattering and the self-healing properties of the Bessel beam. This work has analogies to recent studies of optically bound matter and allows for the simple creation of one-dimensional particle chains and their subsequent spectroscopic analysis. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4001
Number of pages	4001
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	85
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1814820
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2004

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RADIATION PRESSURE
MICROMANIPULATION

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