Title :
Trapping nano-sized particle by waveguide-coupled gold bowtie plasmonic tweezers
Author :
Pin-Tso Lin ; I-Chang Lin ; Heng-Yi Chu ; Tsan-Wen Lu ; Po-Tsung Lee
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Photonics & Inst. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
Under the efficient and compact coupling from optical waveguide, the field highly enhanced and concentrated around gap of gold bowtie structure can trap nano-particle precisely with very strong optical forces compared with most nanophotonic tweezers.
Keywords :
gold; nanoparticles; nanophotonics; optical waveguides; radiation pressure; Au; concentrated field; highly enhanced field; nano-sized particle trapping; optical forces; optical waveguide; waveguide-coupled gold bowtie plasmonic tweezers; Biomedical optical imaging; Charge carrier processes; Gold; Nanophotonics; Optical coupling; Optical diffraction; Plasmons;
Conference_Titel :
Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Glasgow
Print_ISBN :
978-0-9928-4140-9
DOI :
10.1109/OMN.2014.6924600
