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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 8, Issue 38, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq2604
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- JSPS KAKENHI [JP16H06505, JP21H04641, JP21K18884, JP22H05135]
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This study investigated the gradient force exerted on three-dimensional chiral nanoparticles by circularly polarized laser beams, revealing that the force depends on the handedness of the circular polarization of the trapping light and the particle chirality, influenced by the real part of the refractive index and perturbed electromagnetic field.
When a chiral nanoparticle is optically trapped using a circularly polarized laser beam, a circular polarization (CP)-dependent gradient force can be induced on the particle. We investigated the CP-dependent gradient force exerted on three-dimensional chiral nanoparticles. The experimental results showed that the gradient force depended on the handedness of the CP of the trapping light and the particle chirality. The analysis revealed that the spectral features of the CP handedness-dependent gradient force are influenced not only by the real part of the refractive index but also by the electromagnetic field perturbed by the chiral particle resonant with the incident light. This is in sharp contrast to the well-known behavior of the gradient force, which is governed by the real part of the refractive index. The extended aspect of the chiral optical force obtained here can provide novel methodologies on chirality sensing, manipulation, separation, enantioselective biological reactions, and other fields.
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