Reduced volume and reflection for bright optical tweezers with radial Laguerre-Gauss beams

Autor: Béguin, J. -B., Laurat, J., Luan, X., Burgers, A. P., Qin, Z., Kimble, H. J.
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: PNAS 117 (42) 26109-26117 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2014017117
Popis: Spatially structured light has opened a wide range of opportunities for enhanced imaging as well as optical manipulation and particle confinement. Here, we show that phase-coherent illumination with superpositions of radial Laguerre-Gauss (LG) beams provides improved localization for bright optical tweezer traps, with narrowed radial and axial intensity distributions. Further, the Gouy phase shifts for sums of tightly focused radial LG fields can be exploited for novel phase-contrast strategies at the wavelength scale. One example developed here is the suppression of interference fringes from reflection near nano-dielectric surfaces, with the promise of improved cold-atom delivery and manipulation.
Databáze: arXiv