Optical tweezers, tools based on strongly focused light, enable optical trapping,
manipulation, and characterisation of a wide range of microscopic and nanoscopic …

Optical trapping, where microscopic particles are trapped and manipulated by light is a
powerful and widespread technique, with the single-beam gradient trap (also known as …

The controlled manipulation of matter using radiation pressure, otherwise known as optical
trapping, has emerged as a powerful experimental tool in the physical sciences. One …

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 …

The possibility for the manipulation of many different samples using only the light from a
laser beam opened the way to a variety of experiments. The technique, known as Optical …

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 …

We propose to use optical tweezers to probe the Casimir interaction between microspheres
inside a liquid medium for geometric aspect ratios far beyond the validity of the widely …

Trapping a single aerosol particle allows detailed investigation of its fundamental properties
over extended time periods without external interferences. Optical trapping has developed …

Advances in optical tweezers, coupled with the proliferation of two-photon polymerization
systems, mean that it is now becoming routine to fabricate and trap non-spherical particles …

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