Optical trapping and binding

RW Bowman, MJ Padgett - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The phenomenon of light's momentum was first observed in the laboratory at the beginning
of the twentieth century, and its potential for manipulating microscopic particles was …

Holographic optical tweezers and their relevance to lab on chip devices

M Padgett, R Di Leonardo - Lab on a Chip, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
During the last decade, optical tweezers have been transformed by the combined availability
of spatial light modulators and the speed of low-cost computing to drive them. Holographic …

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 …

A review of single-cell adhesion force kinetics and applications

A Shinde, K Illath, P Gupta, P Shinde, KT Lim, M Nagai… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cells exert, sense, and respond to the different physical forces through diverse mechanisms
and translating them into biochemical signals. The adhesion of cells is crucial in various …

Gearing up for optical microrobotics: micromanipulation and actuation of synthetic microstructures by optical forces

D Palima, J Glückstad - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Optics is usually integrated into robotics as part of intelligent vision systems. At the
microscale, however, optical forces can cause significant acceleration and so optical …

Automatic transportation of biological cells with a robot-tweezer manipulation system

S Hu, D Sun - The International Journal of Robotics …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
The positioning of biological cells has become increasingly important in biomedical
research such as drug discovery, cell-to-cell interaction, and tissue engineering. Significant …

Asynchronous event‐based high speed vision for microparticle tracking

Z Ni, C Pacoret, R Benosman, S Ieng… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a new high speed vision system using an asynchronous address‐event
representation camera. Within this framework, an asynchronous event‐based real‐time …

“Red Tweezers”: Fast, customisable hologram generation for optical tweezers

RW Bowman, GM Gibson, A Linnenberger… - Computer Physics …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Holographic Optical Tweezers (HOT) are a versatile way of manipulating
microscopic particles in 3D. However, their ease of use has been hampered by the …

Multi-beam bilateral teleoperation of holographic optical tweezers

K Onda, F Arai - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
A multi-beam bilateral teleoperation system of holographic optical tweezers accelerated by a
graphics processing unit is proposed and evaluated. This double-arm teleoperation system …

Particle tracking stereomicroscopy in optical tweezers: control of trap shape

R Bowman, G Gibson, M Padgett - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We present an optical system capable of generating stereoscopic images to track trapped
particles in three dimensions. Two-dimensional particle tracking on each image yields three …