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Optical binding of polystyrene particles in tractor beam
Damková, Jana ; Chvátal, Lukáš ; Oulehla, Jindřich ; Ježek, Jan ; Brzobohatý, Oto ; Zemánek, Pavel
The motion of a particle illuminated by a laser beam is usually driven by the photon flow due\nto the radiation pressure and therefore for particle trapping, one has to employ gradient forces. But in a tractor beam, objects are illuminated by the uniform light intensity and even so they can be pulled against the beam propagation. There have been developed several techniques how to create such a tractor beam. In our case, the tractor beam is created by two identical Gaussian beams that interfere under the defined angle. It creates the\nstanding wave, where in the transversal plane the particle is trapped by means of the gradient\nforce, but in the total beam propagation direction, the particle manipulation is driven by the non-conservative force. It is remarkable that this force can for the specific combinations of\nparameters pull the micro-particle against the beam propagation. This kind of behavior is\nbecause of the particle scattering where the majority of the incident photons is scattered in the forward direction and, based on the principle of action and reaction, the transfer of\nmomentum leads to a backward movement of the object. The pushing and pulling force is\nsensitive to the polarization of the laser beam, its incident angle and the particle size so this\ntechnique can be used for example for sorting of objects of different sizes.
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Pokročilé techniky optických mikromanipulací
Zemánek, Pavel ; Čižmár, Tomáš ; Šiler, Martin ; Jákl, Petr ; Šerý, Mojmír ; Karásek, Vítězslav ; Brzobohatý, Oto
Nowadays the classical tool of optical micro-manipulations - optical tweezers - found numerous applications in physics, biology and chemistry. However new techniques were developed that used more sophisticated laser beam tailoring and enable to modify positions and number of manipulated objects dynamically, to sort optically objects according to their properties, to deliver them over millimetre long distances or even to let them self-organize after light illumination. We present several results dealing with the above mentioned advanced techniques developed in our laboratory.
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