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5 October 2015 Optical trapping of nanoparticles with significantly reduced laser powers by using counter-propagating beams (Presentation Recording)
Chenglong Zhao, Thomas W. LeBrun
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Proceedings Volume 9548, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XII; 95481U (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2191544
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2015, San Diego, California, United States
Abstract
Gold nanoparticles (GNP) have wide applications ranging from nanoscale heating to cancer therapy and biological sensing. Optical trapping of GNPs as small as 18 nm has been successfully achieved with laser power as high as 855 mW, but such high powers can damage trapped particles (particularly biological systems) as well heat the fluid, thereby destabilizing the trap. In this article, we show that counter propagating beams (CPB) can successfully trap GNP with laser powers reduced by a factor of 50 compared to that with a single beam. The trapping position of a GNP inside a counter-propagating trap can be easily modulated by either changing the relative power or position of the two beams. Furthermore, we find that under our conditions while a single-beam most stably traps a single particle, the counter-propagating beam can more easily trap multiple particles. This (CPB) trap is compatible with the feedback control system we recently demonstrated to increase the trapping lifetimes of nanoparticles by more than an order of magnitude. Thus, we believe that the future development of advanced trapping techniques combining counter-propagating traps together with control systems should significantly extend the capabilities of optical manipulation of nanoparticles for prototyping and testing 3D nanodevices and bio-sensing.
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Chenglong Zhao and Thomas W. LeBrun "Optical trapping of nanoparticles with significantly reduced laser powers by using counter-propagating beams (Presentation Recording)", Proc. SPIE 9548, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XII, 95481U (5 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2191544
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KEYWORDS
Nanoparticles
Optical tweezers
Particles
Biosensing
Control systems
Cancer
Gold
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