Optical tweezers—from calibration to applications: a tutorial

J Gieseler, JR Gomez-Solano, A Magazzù… - Advances in Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Since their invention in 1986 by Arthur Ashkin and colleagues, optical tweezers have
become an essential tool in several fields of physics, spectroscopy, biology …

Efficient computation of arbitrary beam scattering on a sphere: Comments and rebuttal, with a review on the angular spectrum decomposition

G Gouesbet, JA Lock, YP Han, J Wang - Journal of Quantitative …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present paper may be viewed as built from comments concerning a recently published
paper in Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, and actually …

Synchronization of optically self-assembled nanorotors

X Cui, V Mylnikov, P Johansson, M Käll - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Self-assembly of nanoparticles by means of interparticle optical forces provides a
compelling approach toward contact-free organization and manipulation of nanoscale …

On-chip optical trapping with high NA metasurfaces

J Xiao, T Plaskocinski, M Biabanifard… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Optical trapping of small particles typically requires the use of high NA microscope
objectives. Photonic metasurfaces are an attractive alternative to create strongly focused …

Stochastic dynamics of optically bound matter levitated in vacuum

V Svak, J Flajšmanová, L Chvátal, M Šiler, A Jonáš… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Optically levitated nanoparticles in a vacuum offer a light–matter interface with broad and
easy tunability of all key system parameters. However, the majority of previously reported …

Optical trapping, optical binding, and rotational dynamics of silicon nanowires in counter-propagating beams

MG Donato, O Brzobohaty, SH Simpson, A Irrera… - Nano Letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Silicon nanowires are held and manipulated in controlled optical traps based on counter-
propagating beams focused by low numerical aperture lenses. The double-beam …

High-efficiency generation of Bessel beams with transmissive metasurfaces

Z Wang, S Dong, W Luo, M Jia, Z Liang, Q He… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Circularly polarized Bessel beams (BBs) are important in biomolecule-sensing-related
applications, but the available generators are too bulky in size and/or exhibit low …

Rotranslational cavity cooling of dielectric rods and disks

BA Stickler, S Nimmrichter, L Martinetz, S Kuhn… - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
We study the interaction of dielectric rods and disks with the laser field of a high-finesse
cavity. The quantum master equation for the coupled particle-cavity dynamics, including …

Initiating revolutions for optical manipulation: the origins and applications of rotational dynamics of trapped particles

GD Bruce, P Rodríguez-Sevilla… - Advances in Physics …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The fastest-spinning man-made object is a tiny dumbbell rotating at 5 GHz. The smallest
wind-up motor is constructed from a DNA molecule. Picoliter volumes of fluids are remotely …

T-matrix methods for electromagnetic structured beams: a commented reference database for the period 2014–2018

G Gouesbet - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative …, 2019 - Elsevier
T-matrix methods for electromagnetic structured beams mainly encompass Generalized
Lorenz-Mie Theories (GLMTs) which form a set of analytical approaches dealing with the …