Optical vortex trap for resonant confinement of metal nanoparticles.

The confinement and controlled movement of metal nanoparticles and nanorods is an emergent area within optical micromanipulation. In this letter we experimentally realise a novel trapping geometry near the plasmon resonance using an annular light field possessing a helical phasefront that confines the nanoparticle to the vortex core (dark) region. We interpret our data with a theoretical framework based upon the Maxwell stress tensor formulation to elucidate the total forces upon nanometric particles near the particle plasmon resonance. Rotation of the particle due to orbital angular momentum transfer is observed. This geometry may have several advantages for advanced manipulation of metal nanoparticles.

• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Optics Express

• Publication date

  2008-03-31

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Physics, Medicine, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1364/OE.16.004991PMID 18542599
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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