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 …

Advances in light transverse momenta and optical lateral forces

Y Shi, X Xu, M Nieto-Vesperinas, Q Song… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
<? 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 …

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 …

Optical manipulation with metamaterial structures

Y Shi, Q Song, I Toftul, T Zhu, Y Yu, W Zhu… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
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Gradient and curl optical torques

X Xu, M Nieto-Vesperinas, Y Zhou, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Optical forces and torques offer the route towards full degree-of-freedom manipulation of
matter. Exploiting structured light has led to the discovery of gradient and curl forces, and …

Heat-mediated optical manipulation

Z Chen, J Li, Y Zheng - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Progress in optical manipulation has stimulated remarkable advances in a wide range of
fields, including materials science, robotics, medical engineering, and nanotechnology. This …

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 …

Light-driven microdrones

X Wu, R Ehehalt, G Razinskas, T Feichtner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
When photons interact with matter, forces and torques occur due to the transfer of linear and
angular momentum, respectively. The resulting accelerations are small for macroscopic …

Nonradiating anapole modes in dielectric nanoparticles

AE Miroshnichenko, AB Evlyukhin, YF Yu… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Nonradiating current configurations attract attention of physicists for many years as possible
models of stable atoms. One intriguing example of such a nonradiating source is known as …