Optical vault: a reconfigurable bottle beam based on conical refraction of light

Turpin, A; Shvedov, V; Hnatovsky, C; Loiko, Yu V; Mompart, J; Krolikowski, Wieslaw

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Optical vault: a reconfigurable bottle beam based on conical refraction of light

Date

2013-11-04

Authors

Turpin, A

Shvedov, V

Hnatovsky, C

Loiko, Yu V

Mompart, J

Krolikowski, Wieslaw

Publisher

Optical Society of America

Abstract

We employ conical refraction of light in a biaxial crystal to create an optical bottle for photophoretic trapping and manipulation of particles in gaseous media. We show that by only varying the polarization state of the input light beam the optical bottle can be opened and closed in order to load and unload particles in a highly controllable manner.