Intracavity optical trapping of microscopic particles in a ring-cavity fiber laser

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العنوان: Intracavity optical trapping of microscopic particles in a ring-cavity fiber laser
المؤلفون: Fatemeh Kalantarifard, Parviz Elahi, Ghaith Makey, Onofrio M. Maragò, F. Ömer Ilday, Giovanni Volpe
المساهمون: Kalantarifard, Fatemeh, Elahi, Parviz, Makey, Ghaith, İlday, F. Ömer, Volpe, Giovanni
المصدر: Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2019)
Nature Communications
بيانات النشر: Nature Publishing Group, 2019.
سنة النشر: 2019
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases, Microscopy, Optical manipulation and tweezers, Science, Physics::Optics, lcsh:Q, Physics::Atomic Physics, lcsh:Science, Article
الوصف: Standard optical tweezers rely on optical forces arising when a focused laser beam interacts with a microscopic particle: scattering forces, pushing the particle along the beam direction, and gradient forces, attracting it towards the high-intensity focal spot. Importantly, the incoming laser beam is not affected by the particle position because the particle is outside the laser cavity. Here, we demonstrate that intracavity nonlinear feedback forces emerge when the particle is placed inside the optical cavity, resulting in orders-of-magnitude higher confinement along the three axes per unit laser intensity on the sample. This scheme allows trapping at very low numerical apertures and reduces the laser intensity to which the particle is exposed by two orders of magnitude compared to a standard 3D optical tweezers. These results are highly relevant for many applications requiring manipulation of samples that are subject to photodamage, such as in biophysics and nanosciences.
The authors demonstrate an optical trap where particles are trapped inside of a laser cavity. This is possible due to intracavity nonlinear feedback forces that produce stronger confinement on all 3 axes than standard optical tweezers, which greatly reduces the laser intensity needed to trap the same particle.
وصف الملف: application/pdf
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2041-1723
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=pmid_dedup__::5578b86697d93dab21a74d9313dcf0b7
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-019-10662-7
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.pmid.dedup....5578b86697d93dab21a74d9313dcf0b7
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE