title: Optofluidic particle manipulation in a liquid-core/liquid-cladding waveguide.
abstract: This paper describes a method for particle manipulation in a liquid-core/liquid-cladding optical waveguide system. Step-index and graded-index waveguides were modeled with consideration for, respectively, miscible and immiscible core and cladding fluids. The characteristic motions of four different particles with refractive indices of 1.59, 1.48, 1.37, and 1.22 were examined. The guided beam was assumed to be Gaussian in shape. Our results showed that high-refractive-index particles converged at the center of the core fluid due to a positive gradient force, whereas low-refractive-index particles converged at the flow periphery. The nonlinearity of the particle motion increased as the flow velocity and the guided beam waist decreased and the laser power and the particle size increased. The initial beam waist of the guided beam in the graded-index waveguide did not significantly affect the characteristics of the particle motion due to the effects of diffusion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, South Korea.
authors.forename: Kang Soo
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Sang Youl
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.forename: Kyung Heon
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Sang Bok
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hyung Jin
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Sung
authors.forename: Sang Soo
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Kim