title: Giant optical manipulation.
abstract: We demonstrate a new principle of optical trapping and manipulation increasing more than 1000 times the manipulation distance by harnessing strong thermal forces while suppressing their stochastic nature with optical vortex beams. Our approach expands optical manipulation of particles into a gas media and provides a full control over trapped particles, including the optical transport and pinpoint positioning of ∼100  μm objects over a meter-scale distance with ±10  μm accuracy.
authors.affiliation: Laser Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia.
authors.forename: Vladlen G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Shvedov
authors.forename: Andrei V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Rode
authors.forename: Yana V
authors.initials: YV
authors.lastname: Izdebskaya
authors.forename: Anton S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Desyatnikov
authors.forename: Wieslaw
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Krolikowski
authors.forename: Yuri S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Kivshar
mesh_terms: D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry; D005898:Glass / Q000737:chemistry; D008863:Microspheres; D055620:Optical Phenomena; D052898:Optical Tweezers; D010316:Particle Size
chemical_list: D002244:Carbon