Advanced optical trap** by complex beam sha**

M Woerdemann, C Alpmann… - Laser & Photonics …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Optical tweezers, a simple and robust implementation of optical micromanipulation
technologies, have become a standard tool in biological, medical and physics research …

Optical trap** and binding

RW Bowman, MJ Padgett - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The phenomenon of light's momentum was first observed in the laboratory at the beginning
of the twentieth century, and its potential for manipulating microscopic particles was …

“Red Tweezers”: Fast, customisable hologram generation for optical tweezers

RW Bowman, GM Gibson, A Linnenberger… - Computer Physics …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Holographic Optical Tweezers (HOT) are a versatile way of manipulating
microscopic particles in 3D. However, their ease of use has been hampered by the …

An optically actuated surface scanning probe

DB Phillips, GM Gibson, R Bowman, MJ Padgett… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the use of an extended, optically trapped probe that is capable of imaging
surface topography with nanometre precision, whilst applying ultra-low, femto-Newton sized …

Inhomogeneous and anisotropic particles in optical traps: Physical behaviour and applications

SH Simpson - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative …, 2014 - Elsevier
Beyond the ubiquitous colloidal sphere, optical tweezers are capable of trap** myriad
exotic particles with wildly varying geometries and compositions. This simple fact opens up …

Measuring nanoscale forces with living probes

SN Olof, JA Grieve, DB Phillips, H Rosenkranz… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Optical trap** techniques have been used to investigate fundamental biological
processes ranging from the identification of the processive mechanisms of kinesin and …

iTweezers: optical micromanipulation controlled by an Apple iPad

RW Bowman, G Gibson, D Carberry, L Picco… - Journal of …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The 3D interactive manipulation of multiple particles with holographic optical tweezers is
often hampered by the control system. We use a multi-touch interface implemented on an …

Optimizing the optical trap** stiffness of holographically trapped microrods using high-speed video tracking

DB Phillips, DM Carberry, SH Simpson… - Journal of …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Dielectric microrods can be trapped horizontally in pairs of holographically controlled optical
traps. External forces acting on these microrods are registered via the rotational and …

Machine learning-based real-time localization and automatic trap** of multiple microrobots in optical tweezer

Y Ren, M Keshavarz, S Anastasova… - … and robotics at small …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical Tweezer (OT) is an attractive tool for biological studies, which has been used for cell
manipulation and tissue engineering. However, the high intensity of laser beam may …

Towards 3D modelling and imaging of infection scenarios at the single cell level using holographic optical tweezers and digital holographic microscopy

B Kemper, A Barroso, M Woerdemann… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The analysis of dynamic interactions of microorganisms with a host cell is of utmost
importance for understanding infection processes. We present a biophotonic holographic …