Manipulation of light-absorbing particles in air with optical bottle arrays

We demonstrate optical trapping and movement of a carbon nanoparticle agglomeration with both a single optical bottle beam and arrays of such traps. Diffractive optical elements (DOE) designed by a method based on a superposition of the Bessel beams were employed for the generation of the optical traps. Due to the structure of the generated traps, we were able to carry out a three-dimensional movement of trapped microscopic objects.