Title :
Trapping and manipulating aerosols with optical bottle beams generated by Moiré technique
Author :
Zhang, Peng ; Zhang, Ze ; Prakash, Jai ; Huang, Simon ; Christodoulides, Demetrios N. ; Chen, Zhigang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Astron., San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate optical trapping and manipulation of C60 nano-aerosols with optical bottle beams. This method based on the Moire technique can be used for trapping a variety of absorbing nano-particles suspended in air.
Keywords :
aerosols; nanophotonics; radiation pressure; Moire technique; manipulating aerosols; nanoaerosols; optical bottle beams; optical trapping; Biomedical optical imaging; Charge carrier processes; Laser beams; Optical beams; Optical filters; Optical imaging; Optical vortices;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
