Plasmonic tweezers: for nanoscale optical trapping and beyond

Y Zhang, C Min, X Dou, X Wang, HP Urbach… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Optical tweezers and associated manipulation tools in the far field have had a major impact
on scientific and engineering research by offering precise manipulation of small objects …

New trends in instrumental design for surface plasmon resonance-based biosensors

A Abbas, MJ Linman, Q Cheng - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2011 - Elsevier
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based biosensing is one of the most advanced label
free, real time detection technologies. Numerous research groups with divergent scientific …

Synthesis and dynamic switching of surface plasmon vortices with plasmonic vortex lens

H Kim, J Park, SW Cho, SY Lee, M Kang, B Lee - Nano letters, 2010 - ACS Publications
The generation of surface plasmon vortices with arbitrary higher order vortex topological
charges with novel plasmonic vortex lens is experimentally demonstrated. It is shown that …

Surface-plasmon holographic beam shaping

I Dolev, I Epstein, A Arie - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
Surface plasmon polaritons and free-space beams are often coupled through periodic
gratings. Here we show that by employing holographic-based techniques for modulating the …

Generation of cylindrically polarized vector vortex beams with digital micromirror device

L Gong, Y Ren, W Liu, M Wang, M Zhong… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We propose a novel technique to directly transform a linearly polarized Gaussian beam into
vector-vortex beams with various spatial patterns. Full high-quality control of amplitude and …

Coupling of spin and angular momentum of light in plasmonic vortex

SW Cho, J Park, SY Lee, H Kim, B Lee - Optics Express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We present that two distinct optical properties of light, the spin angular momentum (SAM)
and the orbital angular momentum (OAM), can be coupled in the plasmonic vortex. If a …

HE1, 1 mode-excited surface plasmon resonance for refractive index sensing by photonic crystal fibers with high sensitivity and long detection distance

C Liu, H Fu, Y Lv, Z Yi, J Lin, J Lv, L Yang, PK Chu - Optik, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective As a result of the rapid development of optical fiber sensing technology, photonic
crystal fiber (PCF) sensors based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) have attracted …

High-sensitivity photonic crystal fiber methane sensor with a ring core based on surface plasmon resonance and orbital angular momentum theory

L Xu, C Liu, Y Shi, Z Yi, J Lv, L Yang, J Wang, PK Chu - Optik, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective With the advent of optical fiber sensing technology, photonic crystal fiber (PCF)
sensors based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) have become a research hotspot …

Enhanced quadrupole effects for atoms in optical vortices

VE Lembessis, M Babiker - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
We show that the normally weak optical quadrupole interaction in atoms is enhanced
significantly when the atom interacts at near resonance with an optical vortex. In particular …

High-resolution wide-field standing-wave surface plasmon resonance fluorescence microscopy with optical vortices

PS Tan, XC Yuan, GH Yuan, Q Wang - Applied Physics Letters, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
A technique for high-resolution wide-field fluorescence microscopy by using standing
surface plasmon waves induced by optical vortices (OVs) is proposed, aiming at harnessing …