Perspective on light-induced transport of particles: from optical forces to phoretic motion

P Zemánek, G Volpe, A Jonáš… - Advances in Optics and …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Roadmap for optical tweezers

G Volpe, OM Maragò… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical tweezers are tools made of light that enable contactless pushing, trapping, and
manipulation of objects, ranging from atoms to space light sails. Since the pioneering work …

Nonlinear optical response and self-trapping of light in biological suspensions

R Gautam, A Bezryadina, Y Xiang… - … in Physics: X, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In the past decade, the development of artificial materials exhibiting novel optical properties
has become a major scientific endeavor. One particularly interesting system is synthetic soft …

Nanovortex‐Driven all‐dielectric optical diffusion boosting and sorting concept for lab‐on‐a‐chip platforms

A Canós Valero, D Kislov, EA Gurvitz… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The ever‐growing field of microfluidics requires precise and flexible control over fluid flows
at reduced scales. Current constraints demand a variety of controllable components to carry …

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 …

Hysteresis and balance of backaction force on dielectric particles photothermally mediated by photonic nanojet

YX Ren, GGK Yip, LM Zhou, CW Qiu, J Shi, Y Zhou… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Reversible control over the microparticle motion using light excites interesting applications
in optofluidics, microswimmers, artificial optical matter, and biomedical engineering. The …

Conservation of orbital angular momentum and polarization through biological waveguides

N Perez, D Preece, R Wilson, A Bezryadina - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
A major roadblock to the development of photonic sensors is the scattering associated with
many biological systems. We show the conservation of photonic states through optically self …

Van de Hulst Essay: A review on generalized Lorenz-Mie theories with wow stories and an epistemological discussion

G Gouesbet - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative …, 2020 - Elsevier
As the 2020 winner of the van de Hulst Award, I have been committed to the writing of a van
de Hulst Essay which is presented here. The Award has been essentially motivated by my …

Nonlinear self-trapping and guiding of light at different wavelengths with sheep blood

N Perez, J Chambers, Z Chen, A Bezryadina - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the formation of waveguides, a few centimeters long, in colloidal
suspensions of sheep red blood cells for a wide range of wavelengths due to nonlinear self …

Compositionally homogeneous soft wrinkles on elastomeric substrates: novel fabrication method, water collection from fog, and triboelectric charge generation

SS Raj, D Davis, P Viswanathan… - Macromolecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Functionality and stimuli‐response of natural and artificial elastomeric materials depend
significantly on the morphology of their surfaces. Structural transformability and tunable …