Optical trap** with structured light: a review

Y Yang, YX Ren, M Chen, Y Arita… - Advanced …, 2021‏ - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical trap** describes the interaction between light and matter to manipulate micro-
objects through momentum transfer. In the case of 3D trap** with a single beam, this is …

Optical spatiotemporal vortices

C Wan, A Chong, Q Zhan - Elight, 2023‏ - Springer
Spatiotemporal vortices of light, featuring transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) and
energy circulation in the spatiotemporal domain, have received increasing attention recently …

Orbital angular momentum waves: Generation, detection, and emerging applications

R Chen, H Zhou, M Moretti, X Wang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has aroused a widespread interest in many fields,
especially in telecommunications due to its potential for unleashing new capacity in the …

Creating longitudinally varying vector vortex beams with an all‐dielectric metasurface

C Zheng, J Li, J Liu, J Li, Z Yue, H Li… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Vector vortex beams have attracted considerable research attention owing to their unique
optical properties, and have been explored in vortex filtering, photon entanglement, and the …

Optical manipulation from the microscale to the nanoscale: fundamentals, advances and prospects

D Gao, W Ding, M Nieto-Vesperinas, X Ding… - Light: Science & …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Since the invention of optical tweezers, optical manipulation has advanced significantly in
scientific areas such as atomic physics, optics and biological science. Especially in the past …

Optical trap** gets structure: Structured light for advanced optical manipulation

E Otte, C Denz - Applied Physics Reviews, 2020‏ - pubs.aip.org
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 …

[ספר][B] Singular optics

GJ Gbur - 2016‏ - taylorfrancis.com
" This engagingly written text provides a useful pedagogical introduction to an extensive
class of geometrical phenomena in the optics of polarization and phase, including simple …

Tweezers with a twist

M Padgett, R Bowman - Nature photonics, 2011‏ - nature.com
The fact that light carries both linear and angular momentum is well-known to physicists.
One application of the linear momentum of light is for optical tweezers, in which the …

Electromagnetic forces and torques: From dielectrophoresis to optical tweezers

M Riccardi, OJF Martin - Chemical Reviews, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Electromagnetic forces and torques enable many key technologies, including optical
tweezers or dielectrophoresis. Interestingly, both techniques rely on the same physical …

Chiral light–chiral matter interactions: an optical force perspective

C Genet - ACS photonics, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Optical forces are involved in many physical processes and are used routinely in the
laboratory for manipulating and cooling matter, from the micro down to the quantum scales. It …