5 papers
Photophoretic Trapping: Fundamentals, Advances and Future Directions
Anita Pahi, Kirty Ranjan Sahoo, Souvik Sil +1
Photophoretic forces, several orders of magnitude stronger than radiation pressure, enable particle trapping at remarkably low optical intensities and have opened pathways to appli…
A stochastic heat engine driven using a nonlinear protocol
Amrutayani Panda, Biswajit Das, Shuvojit Paul +2
A colloidal particle confined in a time-dependent optical trap can function as a microscopic heat engine, with optimization strategies playing a crucial role in enhancing its perfo…
Simultaneous active and diffusive behaviour of asymmetric microclusters in a photophoretic trap
Anita Pahi, Kirty Ranjan Sahoo, Biswajit Das +2
Active and diffusive motion in Brownian particles are regularly observed in fluidic environments, albeit at different time scales. Here, we experimentally study the dynamics of hig…
Decoding active force fluctuations from spatial trajectories of active systems
Anisha Majhi, Biswajit Das, Subhadeep Gupta +4
Mesoscopic active systems exhibit various unique behaviours - absent in passive systems - due to the forces generated by the corresponding constituents by converting their availabl…
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…