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 …

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 …

Plasmonic nanotweezers employing metallic nanoantennas provide a powerful tool for
trap** nanoscale particles, but the strong heating effect resulting from light absorption …

The control of ultrafast optical field is of great interest in develo** ultrafast optics as well as
the investigation on various light-matter interactions with ultrashort pulses. However …

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 …

The pursuit for efficient nanoparticle trap** with low powers has led to optical tweezers
technology moving from the conventional free-space configuration to advanced plasmonic …

Light carries energy and momentum, laying the physical foundation of optical manipulation
that has facilitated advances in myriad scientific disciplines, ranging from biochemistry and …

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 …

We report an ingenious mechanism to obtain robust optical pulling force by a single plane
wave via engineering the topology of light momentum in the background. The underlying …