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physics.optics2026

Enantioselective optical trapping and characterization of all dielectric disorder-enabled chiral particles

Guilherme T. Moura, Tanja Schoger, Kainã G. Diniz +9

We trap submicroscopic silica spheres coated with randomly distributed titanium dioxide nanoparticles in optical tweezers with Laguerre-Gaussian modes and observe orbital dynamics…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Circular Dichroism without absorption in isolated chiral dielectric Mie particles

Rafael S. Dutra, Felipe A. Pinheiro, Diney S. Ether +3

We demonstrate that an effect phenomenologically analogous to circular dichroism can arise even for dielectric and isotropic chiral spherical particles. By analyzing the polarimetr…

physics.optics2024★ 3 cited

Probing the chirality of a single microsphere trapped by a focused vortex beam through their orbital period

Kainã Diniz, Tanja Schoger, Arthur L. Fonseca +6

When microspheres are illuminated by tightly focused vortex beams, they can be trapped in a non-equilibrium steady state where they orbit around the optical axis. By using the Mie-…

physics.optics2020★ 23 cited

Tailoring optical pulling forces with composite microspheres

R. Ali, F. A. Pinheiro, R. S. Dutra +1

Optical pulling forces or tractor beams can pull particles against light propagation by redirecting the incident photons forward. This is typically achieved using Bessel beams with…

physics.optics2020

Probing the optical chiral response of single nanoparticles with optical tweezers

R. Ali, F. A. Pinheiro, R. S. Dutra +2

We propose an enantioselective scheme to sort homogeneous chiral particles using optical tweezers. For a certain range of material parameters, we show that a highly focused circula…

physics.optics2018

Optimizing optical tweezing with directional scattering in composite microspheres

R. Ali, F. A. Pinheiro, F. S. S. Rosa +2

Trapping of microspheres with a single focused laser beam is usually limited to materials with relative refractive indexes slightly larger than one. We show that directional light…