Study on the Kinetics of Rayleigh Particle Jets Converging by Laser Beams

TL;DR

This study investigates how laser beams influence the stability and convergence of Rayleigh particle jets, demonstrating that laser-induced forces can stabilize and focus particle streams for applications in micro/nano-scale particle manipulation.

Contribution

The paper provides a theoretical and simulation-based analysis of laser-induced convergence effects on both rarified and dense Rayleigh particle jets, revealing broad-spectrum stabilization properties.

Findings

Laser guides particle movement towards concentrated targets.

Optical forces suppress interface instabilities in particle jets.

Laser stabilization applies to both rarefied and dense particle streams.

Abstract

This paper discusses laser-induced flow stabilizing of Rayleigh particle jets. Laser technology, has important applications in micro/nano-scale static monomer particle operations, such as optical tweezers, or is used for the passive measurement of macroscopic physical features of particle groups. However, it is relatively rare for the laser beam to directly interfere with the behavior of particle populations dynamically, so as to achieve the purpose of instant group manipulations. Based on the theoretical analysis of particle dynamics and hydrodynamic stability theory, the effects of light induced convergence on rarified jets (as a point source emitting particle off a nozzle) and denser jets consists of Rayleigh sized particles have been considered. For rarified particle jet's analysis, compared with the classical vacuum evaporation deposition theory, we found that the laser positively guided the movement of particles, leading their pathes into more concentrated targets. Such convergence effect also happens in the case of denser Rayleigh particle jets. Particle dynamics simulations and hydrodynamic stability analysis mutually authenticated that the optical field forces suppress the instability both of long-wave and short-wave on particle jet interfaces, and have broad-spectrum stabilization characteristics. Therefor, diffusive particles in vacuum evaporation can also have very good targeted aggregations by laser.