Higher order microfibre modes for dielectric particle trapping and propulsion

Higher order microfibre modes for dielectric particle trapping and propulsion

Optical manipulation in the vicinity of optical micro- and nanofibres has shown potential across several fields in recent years, including microparticle control, and cold atom probing and trapping. To date, most work has focussed on the propagation of the fundamental mode through the fibre. However, along the maximum mode intensity axis, higher order modes have a longer evanescent field extensi...

Nonlinear force dependence on optically bound micro-particle arrays in the evanescent fields of fundamental and higher order microfibre modes

Particles trapped in the evanescent field of an ultrathin optical fibre interact over very long distances via multiple scattering of the fibre-guided fields. In ultrathin fibres that support higher order modes, these interactions are stronger and exhibit qualitatively new behaviour due to the coupling of different fibre modes, which have different propagation wave-vectors, by the particles. Her...

Higher Order Sliding Modes

One of the most important control problems is control under heavy uncertainty conditions. While there are a number of sophisticated methods like adaptation based on identi cation and observation, or absolute stability methods, the most obvious way to withstand the uncertainty is to keep some constraints by "brutal force". Indeed any strictly kept equality removes one "uncertainty dimension". Th...

Effects of Higher Order Modes

The surface currents on a two-wire transmission line induced by incident field excitations are investigated using the spectral concept. A simple solution is obtained for plane wave excitation. A solution for voltage source excitation, in which the induced current may be given, at least approximately, by means of the so-called leaky-wave concept, is considered. The influence of the electrical di...

Symmetric Plasmonic Slot Waveguides with a Nonlinear Dielectric Core: Bifurcations, Size Effects, and Higher Order Modes