Trapping and transporting aerosols with a single optical bottle beam generated by moiré techniques

Peng Zhang, Ze Zhang, Jai Prakash, Simon Huang, Daniel Hernandez, Matthew Salazar, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, and Zhigang Chen

We demonstrate optical trapping and manipulation of aerosols with an optical bottle beam generated by the moiré techniques. We observe stable trapping and back-and-forth transportation of a variety of absorbing carbon particles suspended in air, ranging from clusters of nanosized buckminsterfullerene C60 to micrometer-sized carbon powders.

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