Chirality-assisted lateral momentum transfer for bidirectional enantioselective separation

• Main Authors: Shi, Yuzhi, Zhu, Tongtong, Zhang, Tianhang, Mazzulla, Alfredo, Tsai, Din Ping, Ding, Weiqiang, Liu, Ai Qun, Cipparrone, Gabriella, Sáenz, Juan José, Qiu, Cheng-Wei
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Science::Physics; Applied Optics; Optical Manipulation and Tweezers
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147276
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Lateral optical forces induced by linearly polarized laser beams have been predicted to deflect dipolar particles with opposite chiralities toward opposite transversal directions. These "chirality-dependent" forces can offer new possibilities for passive all-optical enantioselective sortin...