The identification and separation of substances by chirality has always been an important
problem in biomedical research and industry. Light beams carry optical momentum, and can …

Separating substances by their chirality faces great challenges as well as opportunities in
chemistry and biology. In this study, we propose an all-optical solution for passive sorting of …

Enantioseparation is important for biology, chemistry and even pharmaceutical industries.
We propose an approach for discriminating and separating chiral enantiomers by tightly …

Chirality describes a reduced symmetry and abounds in nature. The handedness-
dependent response usually occurs only when a chiral object interacts with another chiral …

Two enantiomers (mirror images) can show drastically different behaviors, resulting in the
enantiomers' identification and separation being in high demand in biomedical research and …

Lateral optical forces induced by linearly polarized laser beams have been predicted to
deflect dipolar particles with opposite chiralities toward opposite transversal directions …

When a chiral nanoparticle is optically trapped using a circularly polarized laser beam, a
circular polarization (CP)–dependent gradient force can be induced on the particle. We …

Fast and reliable separation of enantiomers of chiral nanoparticles requires elimination of all
the forces that are independent of the nanoparticle handedness and creation of a sufficiently …

Based on the Mie scattering theory and Maxwell stress tensor method, we investigate the
transverse optical force (TOF) acting on chiral particles illuminated by a zero-order Bessel …

We put forward a novel, twofold scheme that enables, at the same time, all-optical
enantioselection and sorting of single multipolar chiral microspheres based on optical …