Optical sensors are widely used for refractive index measurement in chemical, biomedical,
and food processing industries. Due to specific field distribution of the resonances, optical …

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 tweezers, tools based on strongly focused light, enable optical trap**,
manipulation, and characterisation of a wide range of microscopic and nanoscopic …

Inspired by the idea of combining conventional optical tweezers with plasmonic
nanostructures, a technique named plasmonic optical tweezers (POT) has been widely …

Nanowires supporting propagating surface plasmons can function as nanowaveguides to
realize the light guiding with field confinement beyond the diffraction limit, providing …

Optical forces allow manipulation of small particles and control of nanophotonic structures
with light beams. While some techniques rely on structured light to move particles using field …

Tapered metallic grooves have been shown to support plasmons–electromagnetically
coupled oscillations of free electrons at metal–dielectric interfaces–across a variety of …

Plasmonics has attracted a lot of interest in the past few years because of its unique
features, especially for its ability to confine light in extremely small volumes. However …

Optical trap** using focused laser beams has emerged as a powerful tool in the biological
and physical sciences. However, scaling this technique to nanosized objects remains …

Combining reprogrammable optical networks with complementary metal-oxide
semiconductor (CMOS) electronics is expected to provide a platform for technological …