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Area of Science:

  • Optics and Photonics
  • Soft Matter Physics
  • Nanotechnology

Background:

  • Optical trapping is crucial for manipulating microparticles.
  • Bessel beams offer unique properties like self-reconstruction and extended propagation.
  • Organizing microparticles into extended structures is challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To create extended, longitudinally optically bound chains of microparticles.
  • To investigate the phenomenon of multistability in these microparticle chains.
  • To support experimental observations with theoretical modeling.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized counterpropagating Bessel beams to create optical binding.
  • Fabricated microparticle chains up to 200 micrometers in length.
  • Employed the coupled dipole method for theoretical analysis.

Main Results:

  • Successfully generated extended optically bound chains of microparticles.
  • Observed short-range multistability within individual chains.
  • Detected long-range multistability between distinct chains.

Conclusions:

  • Bessel beams enable the formation of long, organized microparticle chains.
  • Multistability is a key characteristic of these optically bound structures.
  • Theoretical modeling validates the experimental findings on optical binding and multistability.