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Elsevier, Optics Communications, 17(282), p. 3421-3425

DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2009.05.045

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Configurable three-dimensional optical cage generated from cylindrical vector beams

Journal article published in 2009 by Xi-Lin Wang, Jianping Ding, Jian-Qi Qin, Jing Chen ORCID, Ya-Xian Fan, Hui-Tian Wang
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Abstract

We propose a new approach to generate a controllable three-dimensional (3D) optical cage by double-mode cylindrical vector beam in the vicinity of focus, by controlling the polarization state of beam. The simulation results show that the 3D optical cage of spheroid surface shape with a sharp dark region surrounded by a uniform optical barrier with a maximum deviation of 2% is achieved. The finite-difference time-domain calculation of optical force validates that such a kind of 3D optical cage has the trapping capability of the low-refractive-index particles with the size being much smaller than the light wavelength.