Optical antitrapping of nanoparticles in Gaussian beam due to surface modes of a substrate

Aliaksandra Ivinskaya, Mihail I. Petrov, Andrey A. Bogdanov, I. Shishkin, Pavel Ginzburg, Alexander S. Shalin

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Abstract

Optical tweezers performance is investigated when the Gaussian beam is focused on the metal substrate with the subwavelength particle. Green's function is used to build analytical formalism underlining surface plasmon contribution to the optical force. Excitation of surface plasmon affects optical forces with significant impact at the surface plasmon resonance condition. At the next step the field and force are reconfigured by defocusing beam relative to the substrate. When the beam is focused above the substrate optical force increases about an order of magnitude due to evanescent field of surface plasmon. Novel effect of repulsion from Gaussian beam (“antitrapping”) is obtained when the beam waist is moved below the substrate which is confirmed by both the analytical approach and finite element simulation. Anti-trapping of subwavelength dielectric particle can be applied for sorting of different-sized particles identical by shape and composition.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Spring, PIERS 2017
EditorsWeng Cho Chew, Sailing He
PublisherElectromagnetics Academy
Pages1945-1948
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781509062690
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event2017 Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Spring, PIERS 2017 - St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Duration: 22 May 201725 May 2017

Publication series

NameProgress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium

Conference

Conference2017 Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Spring, PIERS 2017
Country/TerritoryRussian Federation
CitySt. Petersburg
Period22/05/1725/05/17

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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