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18 October 2004 Optical guiding with continuous wave and femtosecond lasers
Helen Little, C. T. A. Brown, Veneranda Garces-Chavez, Wilson Sibbett, Kishan Dholakia
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Abstract
Optical guiding of microscopic particles in femtosecond and continuous wave Bessel light beams is studied and compared. We confirm that optical guiding is an average power effect and observe no difference in the guiding velocities of non-fluorescing polymer spheres. Furthermore, we observe second harmonic generation of guided KTP crystallites in femtosecond Bessel light beams. This observation opens up the prospect of using multi-photon effects in optical manipulation for applications such as optical identification of guided cells for sorting purposes.
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Helen Little, C. T. A. Brown, Veneranda Garces-Chavez, Wilson Sibbett, and Kishan Dholakia "Optical guiding with continuous wave and femtosecond lasers", Proc. SPIE 5514, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation, (18 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.560591
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KEYWORDS
Particles

Continuous wave operation

Bessel beams

Femtosecond phenomena

Optical spheres

Polymers

Ferroelectric materials

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