Optical guiding of aerosol droplets

doi:10.1364/OE.14.006373

Optical guiding of aerosol droplets

M. D. Summers, J. P. Reid, and D. McGloin »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 14, Issue 14, pp. 6373-6380 (2006)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.14.006373

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We characterize the ability of Gaussian and Bessel beams to guide water, ethanol and dodecane aerosol droplets. Droplets produced from a nebuliser source are trapped using radiation pressure and then by varying the beam power are controllably guided in a vertical direction. The use of a zeroth-order Bessel beam, which has a non-diffracting thin core, is shown to improve guiding distances over a comparable Gaussian beam by more than three times with guiding distances of up to 2.75mm for dodecane droplets. We discuss the applications for this work in the context of tools for optically manipulating airborne particles.

OCIS Codes
(010.1110) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Aerosols
(010.7340) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Water
(140.3300) Lasers and laser optics : Laser beam shaping
(140.7010) Lasers and laser optics : Laser trapping
(290.1090) Scattering : Aerosol and cloud effects

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics

History
Original Manuscript: April 17, 2006
Revised Manuscript: June 23, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: June 26, 2006
Published: July 10, 2006

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Vol. 1, Iss. 8 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics

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M. D. Summers, J. P. Reid, and D. McGloin, "Optical guiding of aerosol droplets," Opt. Express 14, 6373-6380 (2006)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-14-14-6373

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Arlt, J.
Ashkin, A
Ashkin, A.
Bjorkholm, J. E.
Cable, A.
Carruthers, A. E.
Chu, S.
Dholakia, K.
Durnin, J.
Dziedzic, J. M.
Eberly, J. H.
Garces-Chavez, V.
Garcés-Chávez, V.
Hayata, E.
Hopkins, R. J.
King, M. D.
Kobayashi, T.
Kohira, M. I.
Magome, N.
McGloin, D.
Meceli, J. J.
Melville, H.
Mitchem, L.
Mukai, S.
Omori, R.
Prentiss, M.
Pritchard, D. E.
Raab, E. L.
Reid, J. P.
Roskey, D.
Sayer, R. M.
Sibbett, W.
Summers, M. D.
Suzuki, A.
Symes, R.
Thompson, K. C.
Ward, A. D.
Wright, E. M.
Yoshikawa, K.

Appl. Phys. Lett.

A Ashkin and J. M. Dziedzic, "Feedback Stablization of optically levitated particles," Appl. Phys. Lett. 30, 202-204 (1977). [CrossRef]
V. Garcés-Chávez, D. Roskey, M. D. Summers, H. Melville, D. McGloin, E. M. Wright and K. Dholakia, "Optical levitation in a Bessel light beam," Appl. Phys. Lett. 854001-4003 (2004). [CrossRef]

Contemp. Phys.

D. McGloin and K. Dholakia, "Bessel beams: Diffraction in a new light," Contemp. Phys. 46,15-28 (2005). [CrossRef]

J. Am. Chem. Soc.

M. D. King, K. C. Thompson and A. D. Ward, "Laser tweezers Raman study of optically trapped aerosol droplets of seawater and Oleic acid reacting with ozone: Implications for cloud-droplet properties," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 16710-16711 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

J. Phys. Chem. B

N. Magome, M. I. Kohira, E. Hayata, S. Mukai and K. Yoshikawa, "Optical trapping of a growing water droplet in air," J. Phys. Chem. B 107, 3988-3990 (2003). [CrossRef]

Opt. Commun.

J. Arlt, V. Garces-Chavez, W. Sibbett and K. Dholakia "Optical micro-manipulation using a Bessel light beam," Opt. Commun. 197, 239-245 (2001). [CrossRef]

Opt. Lett.

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

R. J. Hopkins, L. Mitchem, A. D. Ward and J. P. Reid, "Control and characterisation of a single aerosol droplet in a single-beam gradient-force optical trap," Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 6, 4924-4927 (2004). [CrossRef]
R. Symes, R. M. Sayer, and J. P. Reid, "Cavity enhanced droplet spectroscopy: Principles, perspectives and prospects," Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 6, 474-487 (2004). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. E

D. McGloin, A. E. Carruthers, K. Dholakia and E. M. Wright, "Optically bound microscopic particles in one dimension," Phys. Rev. E 69, 021403 (2004). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

J. Durnin, J. J. Meceli and J. H. Eberly, "Diffraction-free beams," Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 1499-1501 (1987). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. Ashkin, and J. M. Dziedzic, "Observation of resonances in the radiation pressure on Dielectric Spheres," Phys. Rev. Lett. 38, 1351-1354 (1977). [CrossRef]
A. Ashkin, "Acceleration and trapping of particles by radiation pressure," Phys. Rev. Lett. 24,156-159 (1970). [CrossRef]
E. L. Raab, M. Prentiss, A. Cable, S. Chu, and D. E. Pritchard, "Trapping of neutral sodium Atoms with radiation pressure," Phys. Rev. Lett., 59, 2631-2634 (1987). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Science

A. Ashkin and J. M. Dziedzic, "Optical levitation of liquid drops by radiation pressure," Science 187,1073-1075 (1975) [CrossRef] [PubMed]

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