Showing papers by "Sharath Ananthamurthy published in 2015"
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15 Jun 2015TL;DR: In this article, the phase of a negative axicon is combined with that of a Fresnel zone lens (FZL) to obtain an element labelled as conical FZL, which can generate a focused ring pattern at the focal plane of the lens.
Abstract: The phase of a negative axicon is combined with that of a Fresnel zone lens (FZL) to obtain an element labelled as
conical FZL, which can generate a focused ring pattern at the focal plane of the FZL. The phase integration is achieved
by modifying the location and width of zones of FZL in accordance with the phase variation of the negative axicon. The
element was designed for a high power laser with a wavelength of 1064 nm, focal length and diameter of conical FZL of
30 mm and 8 mm respectively and for a ring diameter of 50 μm. The element was fabricated using photolithography. The
pattern was transferred from the resist layer to the borosilicate glass plates by dry etching to achieve an etch depth of
1064 nm. The etch depth measured using confocal microscope was 1034 nm at the central part and 930 nm for the
outermost part of the device with a maximum error of 12.5% at the outermost part and 3% at the central part. The
element was used in an optical trapping experiment. The ring pattern generated by the conical FZL was reimaged into the
trapping plane using a tightly focusing microscopic objective. Polystyrene beads with diameters of 3 μm were
suspended in deionized distilled water at the trapping plane. The element was found to trap multiple particles in to the
same trap.
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