Unravelling 3D dynamics and hydrodynamics during incorporation of dielectric particles to an optical trapping site

B Louis, CH Huang, R Camacho, IG Scheblykin… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Mapping of the spatial and temporal motion of particles inside an optical field is critical for
understanding and further improvement of the 3D spatio-temporal control over their optical …

Refractive index less than two: photonic nanojets yesterday, today and tomorrow

BS Luk'yanchuk, R Paniagua-Domínguez… - Optical Materials …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Materials with relatively small refractive indices (n< 2), such as glass, quartz, polymers,
some ceramics, etc., are the basic materials in most optical components (lenses, optical …

Deep-UV microsphere projection lithography

A Bonakdar, M Rezaei, RL Brown, V Fathipour… - Optics letters, 2015 - opg.optica.org
In this Letter, we present a single-exposure deep-UV projection lithography at 254-nm
wavelength that produces nanopatterns in a scalable area with a feature size of 80 nm. In …

Persistence of photonic nanojet formation under the deformation of circular boundary

I Mahariq, VN Astratov, H Kurt - JOSA B, 2016 - opg.optica.org
A photonic nanojet is a highly focused optical beam with a subwavelength waist on the
shadow side of the dielectric microsphere or microcylinder. In this paper, photonic nanojets …

Contact focusing multimodal microprobes for ultraprecise laser tissue surgery

A Darafsheh, A Fardad, NM Fried, AN Antoszyk… - Optics …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
Focusing of multimodal beams by chains of dielectric microspheres assembled directly
inside the cores of hollow waveguides is studied by using numerical ray tracing. The device …

Properties of the 3D photonic nanojet based on the refractive index of surroundings

H Ding, L Dai, C Yan - Chinese Optics Letters, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We exhibit a three-dimensional (3D) photonic nanojet based on a dielectric microsphere
irradiated by a plane wave with the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. We …

Production of photonic nanojets by using pupil-masked 3D dielectric cuboid

L Yue, B Yan, JN Monks, Z Wang… - Journal of Physics D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Photonic nanojets can be created via plane wave irradiation of multi-shaped mesoscale
dielectric particles, and a waist of full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) smaller than the …