"Giant optical manipulation with "tractor beam" |
| TYPE | Solid State Institute Seminar |
| Speaker: | Prof. Wieslaw Krolikowski |
| Affiliation: | Laser Physics Centre,Australian National University,Canberra, Australia |
| Organizer: | Distinguished Prof. Moti Segev, tel: 3926 |
| Date: | 16.03.2011 |
| Time: | 12:30 |
| Location: | Solid State Auditorium(Entrance) |
| Remark: | Refreshments at 12:15. |
| Abstract: | I discuss our recent work on a new principle of optical trapping and manipulation increasing more than 1000 times the manipulation distance by harnessing strong thermal forces while suppressing their stochastic nature with optical vortex beams. Our approach expands optical manipulation of particles into a gas media and provides a full control over trapped particles, including the optical transport and pinpoint positioning of 100 micron objects over a meter-scale distance with 10 micron accuracy. |