Progress in optical manipulation has stimulated remarkable advances in a wide range of
fields, including materials science, robotics, medical engineering, and nanotechnology. This …

Optical tweezers, a simple and robust implementation of optical micromanipulation
technologies, have become a standard tool in biological, medical and physics research …

We observe optical trapping and manipulation of dielectric microparticles using autofocusing
radially symmetric Airy beams. This is accomplished by exploiting either the inward or …

We demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally nonparaxial Mathieu and Weber
accelerating beams, generalizing the concept of previously found accelerating beams. We …

Conspectus Optical manipulation techniques are important in many fields. For instance, they
enable bottom-up assembly of nanomaterials and high-resolution and in situ analysis of …

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

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 …

We demonstrate analytically and experimentally that a circular abruptly autofocusing (AAF)
Airy beam can be generated by Fourier-transforming an appropriately apodized Bessel …

For decades, singular beams carrying angular momentum have been a topic of
considerable interest. Their intriguing applications are ubiquitous in a variety of fields …

We study linear and nonlinear self-accelerating beams propagating along circular
trajectories beyond the paraxial approximation. Such nonparaxial accelerating beams are …