A new type of radially polarized (RP) cosine-Gaussian (CG) field is proposed. Through the analytical model, it is found that such RP CG beam exhibits completely different focusing properties from the reported RP plane waves. More importantly, a stable three-dimensional trap of Rayleigh particle accompanied by a subwavelength spin motion can be easily achieved using this RP CG beam.

Nonzero transverse energy flow, which describes phenomenon in which the energy flux of localized light propagates in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis, has attracted enormous interest recently due to its useful application in micromanipulation. We show that the appearance of transverse energy flow in the focal plane of an aplanatic high numerical aperture focusing system is possible. We demonstrate our approach by specially tailoring the input state of polarization. Calculations reveal that number of transverse energy flow rings is controllable and depend on azimuthal index of the input field, thereby giving rise to tunable manipulating locations in optical trapping.