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 …

Propulsive effects of light, which often remain unnoticed in our daily-life experience, manifest
themselves on spatial scales ranging from subatomic to astronomical. Light-mediated forces …

Optical tweezers have emerged as a promising technique for manipulating biological
objects. Instead of direct laser exposure, more often than not, optically-trapped beads are …

We present a novel platform of optical tweezers which combines rapid prototyping of user-
definable microlens arrays with spatial light modulation (SLM) for dynamical control of each …

Since their first appearance in the 1970s (Ashkin, 1970), optical tweezers (OT) have been
extensively developed and have proved to be an invaluable tool for a variety of applications …

We have developed a real time interface for holographic optical tweezers where the
operator's fingertips are mapped to the positions of silica beads captured in optical traps …

In this study, microelectromagnet, microchannel, syringe pump, and controlling devices were
integrated to form a particle sorting system. A simple, two-dimensional, relatively quick …

This paper presents the development of an optimized contact technique for viable cell
manipulation utilizing a high aspect ratio polymer chopstick gripper. The gripper consists of …

We demonstrate a method using a spatial light modulator (SLM) to generate arbitrary 2-D
spatial configurations of laser induced cavitation bubbles. The SLM acts as a phase …

We demonstrate the possibility of serially guiding and sorting nanometer-sized particles
without the use of any external control. The working principle is based on an equilibrium …