Structure of Optical Vortices
Abstract
Helical modes of light can be focused into toroidal optical traps known as optical vortices, which are capable of localizing and applying torques to small volumes of matter. Measurements of optical vortices created with the dynamic holographic optical tweezer technique reveal an unsuspected dependence of their structure and angular momentum flux on their helicity. These measurements also provide evidence for a novel optical ratchet potential in practical optical vortices.
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An analogous orbital-Hall effect, i.e., l-dependent transverse redistribution of intensity, can be seen in asymmetric scattering of vortex beams.
“Analogous 'orbital-Hall effect', i.e., the -dependent transverse redistribution of the intensity, can be seen in the asymmetric scattering of vortex beams 113 .”
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- Authors
- Curtis, J. E., & Grier, D. G.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
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- Physical Review Letters
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- 2003-04-03
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- 90
- Issue
- 13
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- 133901-133901
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Digital Holography and Microscopy
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Keywords
- optical vortices, optical tweezers, angular momentum flux, helicity, optical trapping
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