• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 8, Issue 9, 1435 (2020)
Teanchai Chantakit1、2、3、†, Christian Schlickriede3、†, Basudeb Sain3, Fabian Meyer3, Thomas Weiss4, Nattaporn Chattham1, and Thomas Zentgraf3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
  • 2College of Advanced Manufacturing Innovation, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok 10520, Thailand
  • 3Department of Physics, Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
  • 44th Physics Institute and Research Center SCoPE, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.389200 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Teanchai Chantakit, Christian Schlickriede, Basudeb Sain, Fabian Meyer, Thomas Weiss, Nattaporn Chattham, Thomas Zentgraf. All-dielectric silicon metalens for two-dimensional particle manipulation in optical tweezers[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(9): 1435 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Dynamic control of compact chip-scale contactless manipulation of particles for bioscience applications remains a challenging endeavor, which is restrained by the balance between trapping efficiency and scalable apparatus. Metasurfaces offer the implementation of feasible optical tweezers on a planar platform for shaping the exerted optical force by a microscale-integrated device. Here we design and experimentally demonstrate a highly efficient silicon-based metalens for two-dimensional optical trapping in the near-infrared. Our metalens concept is based on the Pancharatnam–Berry phase, which enables the device for polarization-sensitive particle manipulation. Our optical trapping setup is capable of adjusting the position of both the metasurface lens and the particle chamber freely in three directions, which offers great freedom for optical trap adjustment and alignment. Two-dimensional (2D) particle manipulation is done with a relatively low-numerical-aperture metalens (NAML=0.6). We experimentally demonstrate both 2D polarization-sensitive drag and drop manipulation of polystyrene particles suspended in water and transfer of angular orbital momentum to these particles with a single tailored beam. Our work may open new possibilities for lab-on-a-chip optical trapping for bioscience applications and microscale to nanoscale optical tweezers.
    Teanchai Chantakit, Christian Schlickriede, Basudeb Sain, Fabian Meyer, Thomas Weiss, Nattaporn Chattham, Thomas Zentgraf. All-dielectric silicon metalens for two-dimensional particle manipulation in optical tweezers[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(9): 1435
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