Giant resonant light forces in microspherical photonics

Yangcheng Li; Oleksiy V Svitelskiy; Alexey V Maslov; David Carnegie; Edik Rafailov; Vasily N Astratov

doi:10.1038/lsa.2013.20

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Giant resonant light forces in microspherical photonics

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- Giant resonant light forces in microspherical photonics
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 2, Issue 1-2, (2013)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Physics and Optical Science, Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communication, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001, USA
  2.Department of Radiophysics, University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
  3.Photonics and Nanoscience Group, School of Electrical Engineering and Physics, University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4HN, UK
- Author bio：
  
  Professor VN Astratov, Department of Physics and Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223-0001, USA Email: astratov@uncc.edu
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2013.20
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- Published：2013-06，
  
  Published Online：26 April 2013，
  
  Received：30 August 2012，
  
  Revised：25 November 2012，
  
  Accepted：17 December 2012
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Li, Y. C. et al. Giant resonant light forces in microspherical photonics. Light: Science & Applications, 2, e64 (2013).
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Li, Y. C. et al. Giant resonant light forces in microspherical photonics. Light: Science & Applications, 2, e64 (2013). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2013.20.

摘要

Abstract

Resonant light pressure effects can open new degrees of freedom in optical manipulation with microparticles

but they have been traditionally considered as relatively subtle effects. Using a simplified two-dimensional model of surface electromagnetic waves evanescently coupled to whispering gallery modes (WGMs) in transparent circular cavities

we show that under resonant conditions the peaks of the optical forces can approach theoretical limits imposed by the momentum conservation law on totally absorbing particles. Experimentally

we proved the existence of strong peaks of the optical forces by studying the optical propulsion of dielectric microspheres along tapered microfibers. We observed giant optical propelling velocities ~0.45 mm s

−1

for some of the 15-20 µm polystyrene microspheres in water for guided powers limited at ~43 mW. Such velocities exceed previous observations by more than an order of magnitude

thereby providing evidence for the strongly enhanced resonant optical forces. We analyzed the statistical properties of the velocity distribution function measured for slightly disordered (~1% size variations) ensembles of microspheres with mean diameters varying from 3 to 20 µm. These results demons

trate a principal possibility of optical sorting of microspheres with the positions of WGM resonances overlapped at the wavelength of the laser source. They can be used as building blocks of the lossless coupled resonator optical waveguides and various integrated optoelectronics devices.

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optical propulsionoptical forceswhispering gallery modesmicrospheresevanescent coupling

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