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 trapping is an established field for movement of micron-size objects and cells.
However, trapping of metal nanoparticles, nanowires, nanorods and molecules has received …

For a physicist, and more generally for a scientist, one of the pleasures in everyday life is to
detect exemplifying manifestations and avatars of the topic he is working on. Why do small …

The lateral position of an optically trapped object in a microscope can be monitored with a
quadrant photodiode to within nanometers or better by measurement of intensity shifts in the …

We describe a simple method for creating multiple optical tweezers from a single laser beam
using diffractive optical elements. As a demonstration of this technique, we have …

We describe a toolbox, implemented in Matlab, for the computational modelling of optical
tweezers. The toolbox is designed for the calculation of optical forces and torques, and can …

We review the combinations of optical micro‐manipulation with other techniques and their
classical and emerging applications to non‐contact optical separation and sorting of micro …

Intended to provide an up-to-date overview of the field, this book is also likely to become a
standard work of reference on the science of droplets. Beginning with the theoretical …

Dielectrophoretic trapping of molecules is typically carried out using metal electrodes to
provide high field gradients. In this paper we demonstrate dielectrophoretic trapping using …

The description of electromagnetic arbitrary shaped beams (eg laser beams) under
expanded forms requires the evaluation of expansion coefficients known as beam shape …