Plasmonic tweezers: for nanoscale optical trap** and beyond

Y Zhang, C Min, X Dou, X Wang, HP Urbach… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Optical tweezers and associated manipulation tools in the far field have had a major impact
on scientific and engineering research by offering precise manipulation of small objects …

Recent progress on optical micro/nanomanipulations: structured forces, structured particles, and synergetic applications

LM Zhou, Y Shi, X Zhu, G Hu, G Cao, J Hu, CW Qiu - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Optical manipulation has achieved great success in the fields of biology, micro/nano robotics
and physical sciences in the past few decades. To date, the optical manipulation is still …

Focusing and compression of ultrashort pulses through scattering media

O Katz, E Small, Y Bromberg, Y Silberberg - Nature photonics, 2011 - nature.com
Light scattering in inhomogeneous media induces wavefront distortions that pose an
inherent limitation in many optical applications. Examples where this occurs include …

Laser trap** of colloidal metal nanoparticles

A Lehmuskero, P Johansson, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Optical trap** using focused laser beams (laser tweezers) has been proven to be
extremely useful for contactless manipulation of a variety of small objects, including …

Optical properties of metallic nanoparticles: manipulating light, heat and forces at the nanoscale

EA Coronado, ER Encina, FD Stefani - Nanoscale, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
We present to a general readership an overview of the rich variety of phenomena and
applications that arise from the interaction of metallic nanoparticles with light. First, we …

Single metal nanoparticles: optical detection, spectroscopy and applications

P Zijlstra, M Orrit - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the first report on the far-field optical detection of single metal nanoparticles in the late
1990s, the field has rapidly developed and new methods and concepts have been …

Plasmonic optical tweezers toward molecular manipulation: tailoring plasmonic nanostructure, light source, and resonant trap**

T Shoji, Y Tsuboi - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2014 - ACS Publications
This Perspective describes recent progress in optical trap**s of nanoparticles based on
localized surface plasmon. This plasmonic optical trap** has great advantages over the …

Nanoscale optical trap**: a review

C Bradac - Advanced Optical Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Optical trap** is the craft of manipulating objects with light. Decades after its first inception
in 1970, the technique has become a powerful tool for ultracold‐atom physics and …

Optical gradient force on chiral particles

J Yamanishi, HY Ahn, H Yamane, S Hashiyada… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
When a chiral nanoparticle is optically trapped using a circularly polarized laser beam, a
circular polarization (CP)–dependent gradient force can be induced on the particle. We …

Nonlinearity-induced multiplexed optical trap** and manipulation with femtosecond vector beams

Y Zhang, J Shen, C Min, Y **, Y Jiang, J Liu, S Zhu… - Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Optical trap** and manipulation of atoms, nanoparticles, and biological entities are widely
employed in quantum technology, biophysics, and sensing. Single traps are typically …