Trapping with Optical Tweezers

Thalyta Tavares Martins, Sérgio Ricardo Muniz

Eun Sun KIM, Ju Ha KIM, Seung Seok LEE +1 more

Benjamin P. Stein

Somsak Mitatha, Suthichai Noppanakeepong, J. Ali +1 more

We have experimentally generated the optical tweezers in the form of a dark soliton pulse using the Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) system. This is the first time ever found on the use of the highly intense pulse in the form of a dark soliton to perform the dynamic light trapping probe known as a ¿dynamic optical tweezers¿. The advantage of the generated tweezers is that it can be used to transmit and transport the trapping atom/molecule into the optical device and communication network, which can be claimed as the dynamic optical tweezers transportation, for used in many frontier applications. The multi-optical tweezers generated, with high capacity regime can then be used for multi-optical tweezers transmission. The various applications to form the frontier research using photon, atom, molecule, DNA, electron and ion trapping for atomic tools, tiny synchrotron, molecular networks, bottom up atom/molecule assembly, ozone repair etc. are described. The experimental details and model of the optical tweezers generation and related characteristics are described. The interesting simulation results of a dark soliton generation for the optical tweezers are also analyzed and discussed in various applications.

Gregory Salamo

Rui Sun, Xin Wang, Kong Zhang +2 more

An optical tweezer composed of a strongly focused single-spatial-mode Gaussian beam of a red-detuned 1064-nm laser can confine a single-cesium (Cs) atom at the strongest point of the light intensity. We can use this for coherent manipulation of single-quantum bits and single-photon sources. The trapping lifetime of the atoms in the optical tweezers is very short due to the impact of the background atoms, the parametric heating of the optical tweezer and the residual thermal motion of the atoms. In this paper, we analyzed the influence of the background pressure, the trap frequency of optical tweezers and the laser intensity fluctuation of optical tweezers on the atomic trapping lifetime. Combined with the external feedback loop based on an acousto-optical modulator (AOM), the intensity fluctuation of the 1064-nm laser in the time domain was suppressed from ±3.360% to ±0.064%, and the suppression bandwidth in the frequency domain reached approximately 33 kHz. The trapping lifetime of a single-Cs atom in the microscopic optical tweezers was extended from 4.04 s to 6.34 s.