Title :
Curved optical fiber nano-tip for optical nanotweezer
Author :
Mondal, Subrota K. ; Pal, Sudipta Sarkar ; Kapur, Pawan
Author_Institution :
Central Sci. Instrum. Organ., Chandigarh, India
Abstract :
A fiber nano-tip is presented as non-plasmonic nanotweezer. The nano-tip, prepared from photosensitive single-mode fiber by chemical etching, generates non-diffracting beam which is used trapping particles of different dimensions and material at smaller laser powers.
Keywords :
etching; nanophotonics; optical fibre fabrication; radiation pressure; chemical etching; curved optical fiber nano-tip; laser power; nondiffracting beam; nonplasmonic nanotweezer; optical nanotweezer; particle trapping; photosensitive single-mode fiber;
Conference_Titel :
Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4718-1
