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Extended three dimensional optical tweezers with a Single Gaussian Beam in a stratified medium
Sramana Das, Suvajit Dey, Nirmalya Ghosh +2
We demonstrate a simple and effective approach for realizing extended volumetric optical trapping using a single linearly polarized Gaussian beam propagating through a stratified m…
Probing the Broken Spatial Symmetry of a Stratified Medium with Structured Light
Arani Maiti, Sauvik Roy, Nirmalya Ghosh +2
We study theoretically near-symmetric resonant stratified media to show how a tiny broken spatial symmetry can effectively be probed by structured light with or without orbital ang…
Tunable Optical Torque by Asymmetry-Induced Spin-Hall Effect in Tightly Focused Spinless Gaussian Beams
Sauvik Roy, Ram Nandan Kumar, Biswajit Das +3
A linearly polarized Gaussian beam, carrying zero net spin angular momentum, is conventionally not expected to exert optical torque or induce rotational motion in birefringent micr…
Surface Plasmon Mediated Giant Goos-Hanchen and Imbert-Fedorov Shifts on a Corrugated Metal Surface
Arani Maiti, Sauvik Roy, Abhi Mondal +3
Enhanced beam shifts mediated by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) at metal-dielectric interfaces have been widely investigated. However, research on the associated Imbert-Fedorov or…
Spin-Split Dispersion of Leaky Surface plasmons in Inversion- Symmetric System
Sujit Rajak, Nishkarsh Kumar, Dheeraj Yadav +6
Spin-dependent dispersion and Rashba effect are manifestations of universal spin orbit interaction associated with the breaking of the spatial inversion symmetry in condensed matte…
Can a vector beam be critically coupled leading to perfect absorption?
Sauvik Roy, Nirmalya Ghosh, Ayan Banerjee +1
Critical coupling has emerged as a prominent area of research in recent years. However, most theoretical models are based on scalar theories (and occasionally coupled mode theories…
A comprehensive study of the Spin-Hall effect of tightly focused linearly polarized light through a stratified medium in optical tweezers
Sramana Das, Sauvik Roy, Subhasish Dutta Gupta +2
The optical Spin-Hall effect originates from the interaction between the spin angular momentum (SAM) and extrinsic orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light, leading to mutual interr…
Quasi-coherent perfect absorption of counter-propagating vector beams of finite spatial extent through an absorptive slab
Sauvik Roy, Nirmalya Ghosh, Ayan Banerjee +1
Coherent perfect absorption (CPA) has been a topic of considerable contemporary research interest. Most of the theoretical treatment of CPA with beams, to the best of our knowledge…
Micromotors Driven by Spin-Orbit Interaction of Light: Mimicking Planetary Motion at the Microscale
Ram Nandan Kumar, Jeeban Kumar Nayak, Subhasish Dutta Gupta +2
We introduce a new class of optical micromotors driven by the spin-orbit interaction of light and spin-driven fluid flows leading to simultaneous rotation and revolution of the mic…
Spatially resolved spin angular momentum mediated by spin-orbit interaction in tightly focused spinless vector beams in optical tweezers
Ram Nandan Kumar, Sauvik Roy, Subhasish Dutta Gupta +2
We demonstrate an effective and optimal strategy for generating spatially resolved longitudinal spin angular momentum (LSAM) in optical tweezers by tightly focusing first-order azi…
A rectangular loop interferometer for scalar optical computations and controlled generation of higher-order vector vortex modes using spin-orbit interaction of light
Ram Nandan Kumar, Gaurav Verma, Subhasish Dutta Gupta +2
We have developed a rectangular loop interferometer (RLI) that confines light in a rectangular path and facilitates various interesting applications. Such a device can yield the su…
Reflectionless propagation of beams through a stratified medium
Sounak Sinha Biswas, Ghanasyam Remesh, Venu Gopal Achanta +3
Reflectionless potentials following the prescription of Kay and Moses allow for total transmission of incoming waves of any kinetic energy. The optical analogue of such potentials…
Inhomogeneous spin momentum induced orbital motion of birefringent particles in tight focusing of vector beams in optical tweezers
Ram Nandan Kumar, Sauvik Roy, Anand Dev Ranjan +3
Spin orbit interaction (SOI) due to tight focusing of light in optical tweezers has led to exciting and exotic avenues towards inducing rotation in microscopic particles. However,…
Observation of Larmor-like precession of a single birefringent particle due to spin-dependent forces in tilted optical tweezers
Sauvik Roy, Nirmalya Ghosh, Ayan Banerjee +1
We observe clear precessional motion of highly birefringent liquid crystal (LC) particles trapped in a spherically aberrated optical trap which is built around a tilted refractive…
Influence of Orbital Angular Momentum of light on Random Spin-split modes in Disordered Anisotropic Optical media
Anwesha Panda, Sneha Dey, Yogishree Arabinda Panda +3
Spin orbit interaction of light in a disordered anisotropic medium is known to yield spin split modes in the momentum domain because of the random spatial gradient of the geometric…