Revisiting transverse optical binding

Jörg Baumgartl; Andrew P. Rudhall; Michael Mazilu; Ewan Wright; Kishan Dholakia

doi:10.1117/12.826189

20 August 2009 Revisiting transverse optical binding

Jörg Baumgartl, Andrew P. Rudhall, Michael Mazilu, Ewan Wright, Kishan Dholakia

Proceedings Volume 7400, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation VI; 74001D (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.826189
Event: SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, 2009, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In their pioneering work, Burns et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 1233 (1989)] discovered a laser-induced optical interaction between dielectric microparticles dispersed in water. This interaction occurred in the plane transversal to the laser beam and, interestingly, induced bound pairs of particles. Accordingly, the observed phenomenon was termed "transverse optical binding" (TOB). Burns et al. argued that TOB arises from coherently induced electric dipoles in the microspheres. Indeed, this explanation verified the experimental observation that the spatial periodicity of the TOB interaction matched the laser wavelength in water. However, relatively little experimental evidence has been provided, to date, for both the strength and functional dependence of this effect on the particle distance. In our study, we used an experimental method which allowed us to directly measure the TOB interaction. As a result, we found that this interaction is surprisingly long-ranged.

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Jörg Baumgartl, Andrew P. Rudhall, Michael Mazilu, Ewan Wright, and Kishan Dholakia "Revisiting transverse optical binding", Proc. SPIE 7400, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation VI, 74001D (20 August 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.826189

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