Trapping of resonant metallic nanoparticles with engineered vectorial optical field

摘要

Optical trapping and manipulation using focused laser beams has emerged as a powerful tool in the biological and physical sciences. However, scaling this technique to metallic nanoparticles remains challeng ing due to the strong scattering force and optical heating effect. In this work, we propose a novel strategy to opti cally trap metallic nanoparticles even under the resonant condition using engineered optical field. The distribution of the optical forces can be tailored through optimizing the spatial distribution of a vectorial optical illumina tion to favour the stable trapping of a variety of metallic nanoparticles under various conditions. It is shown that this optical tweezers has the ability of generating negative scattering force and supporting stable three-dimensional trapping for gold nanoparticles at resonance while avoid ing trap destabilization due to optical overheating. The technique presented in this work offers a versatile solu tion for trapping metallic nanoparticles and may open up new avenues for optical manipulation.