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Optical delivery of nanospheres using arbitrary bending nanofibers

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This work reports an optical delivery of about 700-nm diameter polystyrene spheres along arbitrary bending nanofibers (600 nm in diameter) including complete loop structure. Dependence of bending loss on bending radii and central angles of the nanofiber has also been investigated. The results show that, for a specific input optical power, there is a corresponding minimum bending radius for optical trapping and delivery. In other words, for a specific input optical power, when the bending radius of the nanofiber is larger than the minimum bending radius, the 700-nm diameter nanospheres can be trapped and delivered along the bending nanofiber. Vice versa, the nanospheres will be escaped from the bending nanofiber during the delivery process because of relatively large bending loss.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 60625404 and 10974261).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China

    Ying Li, Linlin Xu & Baojun Li

  2. School of Information and Engineering, Guangdong Medical College, Dongguan, 523808, China

    Ying Li

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Li, Y., Xu, L. & Li, B. Optical delivery of nanospheres using arbitrary bending nanofibers. J Nanopart Res 14, 799 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-012-0799-3

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