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Micromanipulation in higher-order Bessel beams

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We discuss experiments on micromanipulation in the higher-order Bessel beams generated by diffractive optical elements (DOEs). Comparison is made of the rotation efficiency in the Bessel beams of the fifth and tenth order. We show that a two-fold increase in the Bessel beam number results in about a two-fold increase of the linear velocity of the microparticle circular movement, despite the fact that the laser beam intensity shows over a three-fold decrease.

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  1. Image Processing Systems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Samara State Aerospace University, ul. Molodogvardeiskaya 151, Samara, 443001, Russia

    R. V. Skidanov, V. V. Kotlyar, S. N. Khonina, A. V. Volkov & V. A. Soifer

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Skidanov, R.V., Kotlyar, V.V., Khonina, S.N. et al. Micromanipulation in higher-order Bessel beams. Opt. Mem. Neural Networks 16, 91–98 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1060992X07020051

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