Optical tweezers are tools made of light that enable contactless pushing, trapping, and
manipulation of objects, ranging from atoms to space light sails. Since the pioneering work …

Optical tweezers are devices that use a single, strongly focused laser beam for the remote,
noncontact trapping and manipulation of microscopic objects. Since the first demonstration …

Optical tweezers have found widespread application in many fields, from physics to biology.
Here, we explain in detail how optical forces and torques can be described within the …

Since their invention in 1986 by Arthur Ashkin and colleagues, optical tweezers have
become an essential tool in several fields of physics, spectroscopy, biology …

Since the invention of optical tweezers, optical manipulation has advanced significantly in
scientific areas such as atomic physics, optics and biological science. Especially in the past …

Optical tweezers use the forces exerted by a strongly focused beam of light to trap and move
objects ranging in size from tens of nanometres to tens of micrometres. Since their …

Abstract This Resource Letter provides a guide to the literature on optical tweezers, also
known as laser-based, gradient-force optical traps. Journal articles and books are cited for …

Since their development in the 1980s, optical tweezers have become a widely used and
versatile tool in many fields. Outstanding applications include the quantitative measurement …

Optical tweezers were first realized 15 years ago by Arthur Ashkin and co-workers at the Bell
Telephone Laboratories. Since that time there has been a steady stream of developments …

Spanning all size levels, regulating biological forces and transport are fundamental life
processes. Used by various investigators over the last dozen years, optical techniques offer …