Author(s): George Winstone, Zhiyuan Wang, Shelby Klomp, Greg R. Felsted, Andrew Laeuger, Chaman Gupta, Daniel Grass, Nancy Aggarwal, Jacob Sprague, Peter J. Pauzauskie, Shane L. Larson, Vicky Kalogera, and Andrew A. Geraci (LSD Collaboration)
We present experimental results on optical trapping of Yb-doped $β$-NaYF subwavelength-thickness high-aspect-ratio hexagonal prisms with a micron-scale radius. The prisms are trapped in vacuum using an optical...