Fluctuation-mediated orbital rotation of microparticles in non-coaxially counter-propagating optical tweezers.

Photochem Photobiol Sci

Division of Frontier Materials Science and Center for Promotion of Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan.

Published: November 2023

We have demonstrated in the present report that dielectric microparticles exhibited orbital rotation in the light field of non-coaxially configured two counter-propagating laser beams both in numerical simulations and experiments. A series of computational simulations indicated that when irradiated with two non-coaxially counter-propagating parallel laser beams with the same intensity distributions in the absence of thermal (Brownian) motion, a microparticle did not exhibit orbital rotation due to the symmetry of the optical field. However, the computations predicted that a microparticle exhibited one directional orbital rotation in the presence of thermal motion because of the symmetry breaking of the optical force acting on the particle. This spontaneous orbital rotation was experimentally demonstrated for 1-µm dielectric particles in water at room temperature.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43630-023-00465-7DOI Listing

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