Photonic tractor beams: a review

W Ding, T Zhu, LM Zhou, CW Qiu - Advanced Photonics, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Usually, an unfocused light beam, such as a paraxial Gaussian beam, can exert a force on
an object along the direction of light propagation, which is known as light pressure …

Optical fiber technologies for nanomanipulation and biodetection: a review

Y Li, H **-assisted SERS platform for chemical and biosensing applications: Design perspectives
Y Yuan, Y Lin, B Gu, N Panwar, SC T**, J Song… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2017 - Elsevier
Useful approaches to tackle Brownian motion of micro/nanoparticles and overcome the poor
reproducibility of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) events are highly desirable …

Sorting of extremely small nanoparticles by membranes supporting symmetry-protected bound states in the continuum

E Bulgakov, G Shadrina, A Sadreev, K Pichugin - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We consider double perforated slabs (membranes) that support a symmetry-protected
bound state in the continuum (BIC). These slabs are immersed into a liquid at room …

Higher order microfibre modes for dielectric particle trap** and propulsion

A Maimaiti, VG Truong, M Sergides, I Gusachenko… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Optical manipulation in the vicinity of optical micro-and nanofibres has shown potential
across several fields in recent years, including microparticle control and cold atom probing …

Optical trap**, sensing, and imaging by photonic nanojets

H Li, W Song, Y Zhao, Q Cao, A Wen - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The optical trap**, sensing, and imaging of nanostructures and biological samples are
research hotspots in the fields of biomedicine and nanophotonics. However, because of the …

Directional optical sorting of silicon nanoparticles

DA Shilkin, EV Lyubin, MR Shcherbakov… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Optical manipulation of nanoparticles is a topic of great practical importance, with
applications in surface science, colloidal chemistry, microfluidics, biochemistry, and …