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 …

A review of complex vector light fields and their applications

C Rosales-Guzmán, B Ndagano, A Forbes - Journal of Optics, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Vector beams, and in particular vector vortex beams, have found many applications in recent
times, both as classical fields and as quantum states. While much attention has focused on …

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 …

Controlled transfer of transverse orbital angular momentum to optically trapped birefringent microparticles

AB Stilgoe, TA Nieminen, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop - Nature Photonics, 2022‏ - nature.com
The interaction between structured light beams possessing optical angular momentum and
small particles promises new opportunities for optical manipulation, such as the generation …

[HTML][HTML] Vectorial light–matter interaction: Exploring spatially structured complex light fields

J Wang, F Castellucci, S Franke-Arnold - AVS Quantum Science, 2020‏ - pubs.aip.org
Research on spatially structured light has seen an explosion in activity over the past
decades, powered by technological advances for generating such light and driven by …

A vector holographic optical trap

N Bhebhe, PAC Williams, C Rosales-Guzmán… - Scientific reports, 2018‏ - nature.com
The invention of optical tweezers almost forty years ago has triggered applications spanning
multiple disciplines and has also found its way into commercial products. A major …

Optical trap** and fluorescence control with vectorial structured light

A Kritzinger, A Forbes, PBC Forbes - Scientific Reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
Here we functionalized micro-scaled polymer beads with nano-scaled quantum dots and
demonstrate optical trap** and tweezing, with in-situ fluorescence measurement, in an all …

Concise and efficient direct-view generation of arbitrary cylindrical vector beams by a vortex half-wave plate

J Qi, W Wang, B Shi, H Zhang, Y Shen, H Deng… - Photonics …, 2021‏ - opg.optica.org
A concise, efficient, and practical direct-view scheme is presented to generate arbitrary
cylindrical vector (CV) beams, including CV beams, vortex beams, and cylindrical vector …

Arbitrary cylindrical vector beam generation enabled by polarization-selective Gouy phase shifter

J Jia, K Zhang, G Hu, M Hu, T Tong, Q Mu, H Gao… - Photonics …, 2021‏ - opg.optica.org
Cylindrical vector beams (CVBs), which possess polarization distribution of rotational
symmetry on the transverse plane, can be developed in many optical technologies …

Dynamic modulation of Poincaré beams

C Alpmann, C Schlickriede, E Otte, C Denz - Scientific Reports, 2017‏ - nature.com
Generation of complex Poincaré beams is enabled by amplitude and phase modulation
accompanied by simultaneous spatially polarization structuring. A holographic system to …