Giorgio Volpe, Giovanni Volpe, Sylvain Gigan
Optical tweezers have been widely applied to trap and manipulate micro- and nano-objects, such as cells, organelles and macromolecules. Generating well-controlled optical forces usually requires a highly focused laser beam, which means a careful engineering of the setups and the samples. Although similar conditions are routinely met in research laboratories, optical imperfections or scattering limit the applicability of this technique to real-life situations, such as in biomedical or microfluidic applications. Nonetheless, scattering of coherent light by disordered structures gives rise to speckles, random diffraction patterns with well-defined statistical properties. Here, we demonstrate how speckle fields can become a versatile tool to perform fundamental optical manipulation tasks such as trapping, guiding and sorting, exploiting the emergence of anomalous diffusion and drift in time-varying speckles. The simplicity and high-throughput of this technique greatly broadens the perspectives of optical manipulation for potentials real-life applications.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1433
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