• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 11, Issue 9, 1524 (2023)
Liuhao Zhu1, Yuping Tai1、2, Hehe Li1, Huajie Hu1, Xinzhong Li1、2、7、*, Yangjian Cai3、4、8、*, and Yijie Shen5、6、9、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Physics and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China
  • 3Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
  • 4Joint Research Center of Light Manipulation Science and Photonic Integrated Chip of East China Normal University and Shandong Normal University, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
  • 5Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
  • 6Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and The Photonics Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637378, Singapore
  • 7e-mail: xzli@haust.edu.cn
  • 8e-mail: yangjian_cai@163.com
  • 9e-mail: yijie.shen@ntu.edu.sg
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.490103 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Liuhao Zhu, Yuping Tai, Hehe Li, Huajie Hu, Xinzhong Li, Yangjian Cai, Yijie Shen. Multidimensional optical tweezers synthetized by rigid-body emulated structured light[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(9): 1524 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Structured light with more extended degrees of freedom (DoFs) and in higher dimensions is increasingly gaining traction and leading to breakthroughs such as super-resolution imaging, larger-capacity communication, and ultraprecise optical trapping or tweezers. More DoFs for manipulating an object can access more maneuvers and radically increase maneuvering precision, which is of significance in biology and related microscopic detection. However, manipulating particles beyond three-dimensional (3D) spatial manipulation by using current all-optical tweezers technology remains difficult. To overcome this limitation, we theoretically and experimentally present six-dimensional (6D) structured optical tweezers based on tailoring structured light emulating rigid-body mechanics. Our method facilitates the evaluation of the methodology of rigid-body mechanics to synthesize six independent DoFs in a structured optical trapping system, akin to six-axis rigid-body manipulation, including surge, sway, heave, roll, pitch, and yaw. In contrast to previous 3D optical tweezers, our 6D structured optical tweezers significantly improved the flexibility of the path design of complex trajectories, thereby laying the foundation for next-generation functional optical manipulation, assembly, and micromechanics.
    Liuhao Zhu, Yuping Tai, Hehe Li, Huajie Hu, Xinzhong Li, Yangjian Cai, Yijie Shen. Multidimensional optical tweezers synthetized by rigid-body emulated structured light[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(9): 1524
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