@article{4dc5a8aacbb64562b99747c49b070b93,
title = "Optical levitation in a Bessel light beam",
abstract = "A vertically oriented zero order Bessel light beam is shown to create a one-dimensional array of trapped particles over extended (millimeter) distances. The particles take up equilibrium positions over the entire length of the beam and this is a consequence of the interplay between optical scattering and the self-healing properties of the Bessel beam. This work has analogies to recent studies of optically bound matter and allows for the simple creation of one-dimensional particle chains and their subsequent spectroscopic analysis.",
author = "V. Garc{\'e}s-Ch{\'a}vez and D. Roskey and Summers, {M. D.} and H. Melville and D. McGloin and Wright, {E. M.} and K. Dholakia",
note = "Funding Information: The authors would like to thank the Royal Society and the European Commission 6th framework programme—NEST ADVENTURE Activity—, through Project ATOM-3D (Contract No. 508952), for their support of this work. D.M. is a Royal Society University Research Fellow. D.R. acknowledges funding from a Graduate Scholarship from the Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS). ",
year = "2004",
month = nov,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1063/1.1814820",
language = "English",
volume = "85",
pages = "4001--4003",
journal = "Applied Physics Letters",
issn = "0003-6951",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Publising LLC",
number = "18",
}