Single beam optical vortex tweezers with tunable orbital angular momentum

Gecevičius, Mindaugas, Drevinskas, Rokas, Beresna, Martynas and Kazansky, Peter G. (2014) Single beam optical vortex tweezers with tunable orbital angular momentum. Applied Physics Letters, 104 (23), 231110/1-231110/4, [231110]. (doi:10.1063/1.4882418).

Abstract

We propose a single beam method for generating optical vortices with tunable optical angular momentum without altering the intensity distribution. With the initial polarization state varying from linear to circular, we gradually control the torque transferred to the trapped non-absorbing and non-birefringent silica beads. The continuous transition from the maximum rotation speed to zero without changing the trapping potential gives a way to study the complex tribological interactions.

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