Optical tweezers—from calibration to applications: a tutorial

J Gieseler, JR Gomez-Solano, A Magazzù… - Advances in Optics …, 2021‏ - opg.optica.org
Since their invention in 1986 by Arthur Ashkin and colleagues, optical tweezers have
become an essential tool in several fields of physics, spectroscopy, biology …

Colloquium: Gripped by light: Optical binding

K Dholakia, P Zemánek - Reviews of modern physics, 2010‏ - APS
The light-matter interaction has been at the heart of major advances from the atomic scale
right to the microscopic scale over the past four decades. Confinement by light, embodied by …

Light at work: The use of optical forces for particle manipulation, sorting, and analysis

A Jonáš, P Zemanek - Electrophoresis, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
We review the combinations of optical micro‐manipulation with other techniques and their
classical and emerging applications to non‐contact optical separation and sorting of micro …

Optical manipulation of microspheres along a subwavelength optical wire

G Brambilla, GS Murugan, JS Wilkinson… - Optics letters, 2007‏ - opg.optica.org
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The holographic optical micro-manipulation system based on counter-propagating beams

T Čižmár, O Brzobohatý, K Dholakia… - Laser Physics …, 2010‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present a system employing a dynamic diffractive optical element to control properties of
two counter-propagating beams overlap** within a sample chamber. This system allows …

Optical deflection and sorting of microparticles in a near-field optical geometry

RF Marchington, M Mazilu, S Kuriakose… - Optics express, 2008‏ - opg.optica.org
Near-field optical micromanipulation permits new possibilities for controlled motion of
trapped objects. In this work, we report an original geometry for optically deflecting and …

Mie scattering and optical forces from evanescent fields: A complex-angle approach

AY Bekshaev, KY Bliokh, F Nori - Optics express, 2013‏ - opg.optica.org
Mie theory is one of the main tools describing scattering of propagating electromagnetic
waves by spherical particles. Evanescent optical fields are also scattered by particles and …

Gradient, scattering and other kinds of longitudinal optical forces exerted by off-axis Bessel beams in the Rayleigh regime in the framework of generalized Lorenz-Mie …

G Gouesbet - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract After Arthur Ashkin's pioneering work in optical levitation and manipulation, the
study of optical forces exerted by laser beams on particles has become an active field of …

Manipulation of dielectric particles using photonic crystal cavities

M Barth, O Benson - Applied physics letters, 2006‏ - pubs.aip.org
The authors present a theoretical study of the optical trap** forces on dielectric particles
occurring in the highly localized evanescent field of planar photonic crystal (PC) cavities …

Optical pulling using evanescent mode in sub-wavelength channels

T Zhu, MRC Mahdy, Y Cao, H Lv, F Sun, Z Jiang… - Optics express, 2016‏ - opg.optica.org
Optical evanescent wave in total internal reflection has been widely used in efficient optical
manipulation, where the object is trapped by the intrinsic intensity gradient of the evanescent …