<? pag\vskip-16pt?> Harnessing linear and angular momenta of light is one of the
cornerstones in modern optics and has found tremendous applications in optical circuits …

Optical manipulations utilizing the mechanical effect of light have been indispensable in
various disciplines. Among those various manipulations, optical pulling has emerged …

Optical tweezers employing forces produced by light underpin important manipulation tools
employed in numerous areas of applied and biological physics. Conventional optical …

The pace of innovations in the field of optical trap** has ramped up in the past couple of
years. The implementation of structured light, leading to groundbreaking inventions such as …

Transverse spin momentum related to the spin angular momentum (SAM) of light has been
theoretically studied recently and predicted to generate an intriguing optical lateral force …

The concept of lateral optical force (LOF) is of general interest in optical manipulation as it
releases the constraint of intensity gradient in tightly focused light, yet such a force is …

Dynamic control of compact chip-scale contactless manipulation of particles for bioscience
applications remains a challenging endeavor, which is restrained by the balance between …

Propulsive effects of light, which often remain unnoticed in our daily-life experience, manifest
themselves on spatial scales ranging from subatomic to astronomical. Light-mediated forces …

We propose a novel approach to generating optical pulling forces on a gold nanowire, which
are placed inside or above a hyperbolic metamaterial and subjected to plane wave …

Optical trap** has become a powerful tool in numerous fields such as biology, physics,
chemistry, etc. In conventional optical trap** systems, trap** and imaging share the …