Selective Trapping or Rotation of

Isotropic Dielectric Microparticles by

Optical Near Field in a Plasmonic
Archimedes Spiral

Advisor : Prof. Po-Tsung Lee

Student : Fitri Oktafiani
Nov 3rd, 2020
 Outline
• Introduction
• Design and Experimental Set up
• Result
• SP Intensity pattern (Left-hand Circularly Polarization)
• SP vortex intensity pattern (Right-hand Circularly Polarization)
• Conclusion

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 Introduction
• Transfer of angular momentum
 Light-induced rotation of
absorbing microscopic particles.
• Switching between traping and
rotation in one single plasmonic
structure Plasmonic
Archimedes Spiral (PAS)
• Application in micromechanical
system :
• Micromotor
• Microblender

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Structure Design
Right-hand PAS
+(
𝜆=1545 𝑛𝑚

𝜆 𝑠𝑝𝑝 =¿ ¿
𝜆 𝑠𝑝𝑝 =¿ ¿
1150 nm

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Structure Design
∴^
𝐸𝑠𝑝𝑝 (𝑅 , 𝜃)∝ ^𝑧 𝐽 𝑞 ( 𝑘𝑠𝑝𝑝 𝑅 ) exp ⁡[ 𝑗𝑞 𝜃 ]

1 (Right-hand circularly polarized)

𝑞=𝑚+ 𝑠

−1 (Left-hand circularly polarized)

1 -1
(Right-hand PAS) (Left-hand PAS)

the total topological charge

m geometrical charge
spin angular momentum

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Result
Left-hand circularly polarization  q = 0 Right-hand circularly polarization  q = 2

SP Vortex

Zero angular momentum A near field vortex can transfer its angular momentum to
microparticle and induce rotation motion of particle.

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Simulation result
∴ Trapping Mode ( y − position)

SP Vortex

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Simulation result
(x-position)

SP Vortex

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Simulation result
∴ Rotating Mode

SP Vortex

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Simulation result
∴ Rotating Mode( y − position)

SP Vortex

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Experimental Set-Up

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Experimental Result

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Experimental Result

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Experimental Result

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Conclusion
• q=0 (LCP), SP focusing field  Trap microparticles
• q=2 (RCP), SP vortex  Trap and rotate mircoparticles
• LCP 
• RCP 
• The stable particle trapping over the optical powers ranging from 40
to 80 mW.

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Thank You
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