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 …

Optical trap** has become a powerful tool in numerous fields such as biology, physics,
chemistry, etc. In conventional optical trap** systems, trap** and imaging share the …

The impact of optical forces in the physical and biological sciences now enables the
manipulation of objects ranging in size from a cell down to a single atom. The mechanical …

It was previously believed that larger metal nanoparticles behave as tiny mirrors that are
pushed by the light beam radiative force along the direction of beam propagation, without a …

Coherent scattering of light from ultracold atoms involves an exchange of energy and
momentum introducing a wealth of nonlinear dynamical phenomena. As a prominent …

Explicit partial wave coefficients are derived for nondiffractive vector Bessel beam of
arbitrary order and polarization. Calculations based on the analytical partial wave expansion …

We review the use of the T-matrix description of scattering, or the T-matrix method, for the
calculation of optical forces and torques, especially for the computational modelling of …

The evanescent field of an optical nanofiber presents a versatile interface for the
manipulation of micron-scale particles in dispersion. Here, we present a detailed study of the …

We present an experimental and theoretical study of long distance optical binding effects
acting upon micro-particles placed in a standing wave optical field. In particular we present …

Particles trapped in the evanescent field of an ultrathin optical fibre interact over very long
distances via multiple scattering of the fibre-guided fields. In ultrathin fibres that support …