Enantioselective optical gradient forces using 3D structured vortex light

Forbes, Kayn A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8884-3496 and Green, Dale ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2549-0486 (2022) Enantioselective optical gradient forces using 3D structured vortex light. Optics Communications, 515. ISSN 0030-4018

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Abstract

Here we highlight enantioselective optical gradient forces present in 3D (non-paraxial) structured optical vortex tweezing systems. One chiral force originates from the circular polarization of the light, while remarkably the other is independent of the input polarization - even occurring for unpolarized light – and is not present in 2D structured light nor propagating plane waves. This latter chiral sorting mechanism allows for the enantioselective trapping of chiral particles into distinct rings in the transverse plane through conservative radial forces.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Funding Information: KAF thanks the Leverhulme Trust for funding him through a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, UK (Grant Number ECF-2019-398 ).
Uncontrolled Keywords: chirality,optical forces,optical manipulation,optical trapping,optical vortex,structured light,electronic, optical and magnetic materials,atomic and molecular physics, and optics,physical and theoretical chemistry,electrical and electronic engineering ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2500/2504
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Photonics and Quantum Science
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 22 Mar 2022 09:30
Last Modified: 09 Feb 2023 13:50
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/84204
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2022.128197

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