Light–matter interaction empowered by orbital angular momentum: Control of matter at the micro-and nanoscale

A Porfirev, S Khonina, A Kuchmizhak - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is an important feature of structured
electromagnetic fields exhibiting non-uniform spatial distribution. In contrast to a spin …

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 …

Superscattering emerging from the physics of bound states in the continuum

A Canós Valero, HK Shamkhi, AS Kupriianov… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
We study the Mie-like scattering from an open subwavelength resonator made of a high-
index dielectric material, when its parameters are tuned to the regime of interfering …

Optical manipulation with metamaterial structures

Y Shi, Q Song, I Toftul, T Zhu, Y Yu, W Zhu… - Applied Physics …, 2022‏ - pubs.aip.org
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Special scattering regimes for conical all-dielectric nanoparticles

AV Kuznetsov, A Canós Valero, HK Shamkhi… - Scientific reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
All-dielectric nanophotonics opens a venue for a variety of novel phenomena and scattering
regimes driven by unique optical effects in semiconductor and dielectric nanoresonators …

Orbital angular momentum in nanoplasmonic vortices

E Prinz, M Hartelt, G Spektor, M Orenstein… - ACS …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
In the past decade, optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) has entered the field of
plasmonics in the form of surface-confined vortices, generating vast interest. Here we give …

Nanoscale tunable optical binding mediated by hyperbolic metamaterials

NA Kostina, DA Kislov, AN Ivinskaya, A Proskurin… - ACS …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Carefully designed nanostructures can inspire a new type of optomechanical interactions
and allow surpassing limitations set by classical diffractive optical elements. Apart from …

Optical binding of nanoparticles

KA Forbes, DS Bradshaw, DL Andrews - Nanophotonics, 2020‏ - degruyter.com
Optical binding is a laser-induced inter-particle force that exists between two or more
particles subjected to off-resonant light. It is one of the key tools in optical manipulation of …

Nonlinearity-induced optical torque

I Toftul, G Fedorovich, D Kislov, K Frizyuk, K Koshelev… - Physical Review Letters, 2023‏ - APS
Optically induced mechanical torque driving rotation of small objects requires the presence
of absorption or breaking cylindrical symmetry of a scatterer. A spherical nonabsorbing …

Switchable Optical Trap** of Mie‐Resonant Phase‐Change Nanoparticles

L Mao, I Toftul, S Balendhran, M Taha… - Laser & Photonics …, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
Optical tweezers revolutionized the manipulation of nanoscale objects. Typically, tunable
manipulations of optical tweezers rely on adjusting either the trap** laser beams or the …