Optical trapping of a cube

Details Optical trapping of a cube Optical trapping of a cube

2007-02-06

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702045v1

in R. Sang and J. Dobson (eds), Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) 17th National Congress 2006: Refereed Papers (Australian

Physics

Optics

5 pages, 2 figures, presented at 17th AIP Congress, Brisbane, 2006

Scientific paper

The successful development and optimisation of optically-driven micromachines will be greatly enhanced by the ability to computationally model the optical forces and torques applied to such devices. In principle, this can be done by calculating the light-scattering properties of such devices. However, while fast methods exist for scattering calculations for spheres and axisymmetric particles, optically-driven micromachines will almost always be more geometrically complex. Fortunately, such micromachines will typically possess a high degree of symmetry, typically discrete rotational symmetry. Many current designs for optically-driven micromachines are also mirror-symmetric about a plane. We show how such symmetries can be used to reduce the computational time required by orders of magnitude. Similar improvements are also possible for other highly-symmetric objects such as crystals. We demonstrate the efficacy of such methods by modelling the optical trapping of a cube, and show that even simple shapes can function as optically-driven micromachines.

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