[HTML][HTML] Bessel beam: Significance and applications—A progressive review

SN Khonina, NL Kazanskiy, SV Karpeev, MA Butt - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Diffraction is a phenomenon related to the wave nature of light and arises when a
propagating wave comes across an obstacle. Consequently, the wave can be transformed in …

Picosecond Bessel beam fabricated pure, gold-coated silver nanostructures for trace-level sensing of multiple explosives and hazardous molecules

D Banerjee, M Akkanaboina, S Ghosh, VR Soma - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
A zeroth-order, non-diffracting Bessel beam, generated by picosecond laser pulses (1064
nm, 10 Hz, 30 ps) through an axicon, was utilized to perform pulse energy-dependent (12 …

Morphology-independent general-purpose optical surface tractor beam

N Wang, J Ng, GP Wang - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Optical tractor beams capable of pulling particles backward have garnered significant and
increasing interest. Traditional optical tractor beams are limited to free space beams with …

Trapping microparticles in a structured dark focus

F Almeida, I Sousa, O Kremer, BP da Silva, DS Tasca… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We experimentally demonstrate stable trapping and controlled manipulation of silica
microspheres in a structured optical beam consisting of a dark focus surrounded by light in …

Enantioselection and chiral sorting of single microspheres using optical pulling forces

R Ali, RS Dutra, FA Pinheiro, PA Maia Neto - Optics letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We put forward a novel, twofold scheme that enables, at the same time, all-optical
enantioselection and sorting of single multipolar chiral microspheres based on optical …

Continuous evolution of Fermi arcs in a minimal ideal photonic Weyl medium

Y Liu, M Wang, Y Huang, GP Wang… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
Propagation properties of electromagnetic waves in an optical medium are mainly
determined by the contour of equal-frequency states in k-space. In photonic Weyl media, the …

Optothermal pulling, trapping, and assembly of colloids using nanowire plasmons

V Sharma, S Tiwari, D Paul, R Sahu, V Chikkadi… - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Optical excitation of colloids can be harnessed to realize soft matter systems that are out of
equilibrium. In this paper, we present our experimental studies on the dynamics of silica …

Tailing Optical Pulling Force on a Metal–Dielectric Hybrid Dimer with Electromagnetic Coupling

XM Zhang, JJ Yu, HP Wu, X Zhou, TY Zhang, JP Liu - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this work, we demonstrate that optical pulling forces (OPFs) can be induced by a hybrid
dimer consisting of a Si nanoparticle (NP) and a coated nanoparticle with a gain core and …

Enantioselective optical forces and size-dependent sorting of single chiral particles using vortex beams

R Ali, FA Pinheiro, RS Dutra, TPM Alegre… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We put forward an approach to manipulate and enantioselect chiral microspheres using
vortex beams that encode topological charges. Vortex beams with different topological …

Lateral optical force along the translationally invariant direction of optical fields formed by circularly polarized plane waves

Z Xiu, Y Zhang, H Shi, H Zheng, H Chen, W Lu, Z Lin - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Based on the generalized Lorenz-Mie method and Maxwell stress tensor theory, we
demonstrate that a lateral optical force (OF) can be induced on a spherical particle along the …