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International Science, Social Science, Engineering and Energy Conference 2010:
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Dynamic Optical Tweezers Generation using a PANDA Ring
Resonator
S. Punthawanunt
a,
*, S. Songmuang
a
, S. Mitatha
b
and P.P. Yupapin
c
a
Faculty of Science and Technology, Kasem Bundit University, Bangkok 10250, Thailand
b
Hybrid Computing Research Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering
King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok 10520, Thailand
c
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Research Alliance, Advanced Research Center for Photonics
Faculty of Science, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang Bangkok 10520, Thailand
Elsevier use only: Received 15 November 2010; revised 15 December 2010; accepted 20 December 2010
Abstract
We propose a novel system of a tweezers generated source using a dark-bright soliton pulse propagating within a
PANDA ring resonator, which is consisted of an add/drop optical multiplexer and two nanoring reonators. The
potential well stability is generated and achieved when the system is controlled by the Gaussian pulse via a control
port. The dynamic multi-tweezers can be generated, which can be available for molecule/atom trapping and
transportation sources.
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Keywords: Innovative Microring and Nanoring, Dynamic tweezers, Molecule/atom guide, Molecule/atom trapping
1. Introduction
Dark-bright soliton control within a semiconductor add/drop multiplexer has shown the promising applications,
which has been investigated clearly by the authors in references [1, 2]. One of the advantages is that the dark soliton
peak signal is always at a low level, which is useful for secured signal communication in the transmission link. The
other is formed when the high optical field is configured as an optical tweezer or potential well [3, 4], which is
available for atom/molecule trapping. In principle, an optical tweezer uses forces exerted by intensity gradients in a
strongly focused beam of light to trap and move a microscopic volume of matter. Therefore, optical tweezers
technique has become a powerful tool for manipulation of micrometer-sized particles in three spatial dimensions.
Initially, the useful static tweezer is recognized, and the dynamic tweezer is now realized in practical work [5-8].
Recently, Schulz et al [9] have shown that the transfer of trapped atoms between two optical potentials could be
performed.
* Corresponding author. Tel.: +6-689-445-2224; fax: +6-627-227-262.
E-mail address: suphanchai@kbu.ac.th.
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doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2011.03.085
Procedia Engineering 8 (2011) 467–473