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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Manipulating ellipsoidal micro-particles by femtosecond vortex tweezers

Changxia Liu, Zhongyi Guo, Yan Li, Xinshun Wang and Shiliang Qu

We study the manipulation of the ellipsoidal micro-particles by the femtosecond vortex tweezer experimentally and theoretically. In our setup the micro-particles can be rotated stably by means of optical torque induced by the femtosecond optical whirl. In order to give insight into observed effects, we establish two adequate theoretical models: one is based upon assumption of full absorption and the other uses the ray tracing method. The numerical simulations agree well with the experimental results.

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