Optical pulling forces and their applications

H Li, Y Cao, LM Zhou, X Xu, T Zhu, Y Shi… - Advances in Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Optical manipulations utilizing the mechanical effect of light have been indispensable in
various disciplines. Among those various manipulations, optical pulling has emerged …

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 …

Reflective plasmonic color filters based on lithographically patterned silver nanorod arrays

G Si, Y Zhao, J Lv, M Lu, F Wang, H Liu, N ** performance
BJ Roxworthy, KC Toussaint Jr - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
Using Au bowtie nanoantennas arrays (BNAs), we demonstrate that the performance and
capability of plasmonic nanotweezers is strongly influenced by both the material comprising …

Multipole interplay controls optical forces and ultra-directional scattering

A Kiselev, K Achouri, OJF Martin - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We analyze the superposition of Cartesian multipoles to reveal the mechanisms underlying
the origin of optical forces. We show that a multipolar decomposition approach significantly …

Optical forces and torques on realistic plasmonic nanostructures: a surface integral approach

A Ji, TV Raziman, J Butet, RP Sharma, OJF Martin - Optics Letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We develop a novel formalism to calculate the optical forces and torques on complex and
realistic nanostructures by combining the surface integral equation (SIE) technique with …

Internal optical forces in plasmonic nanostructures

TV Raziman, OJF Martin - Optics Express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We present a computational study of the internal optical forces arising in plasmonic gap
antennas, dolmen structures and split rings. We find that very strong internal forces …

Plasmonic optical trap having very large active volume realized with nano-ring structure

Z Kang, H Zhang, H Lu, J Xu, HC Ong, P Shum… - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
The feasibility of using gold nano-rings as plasmonic nano-optical tweezers is investigated.
We found that at a resonant wavelength of λ= 785 nm, the nano-ring produces a maximum …