Since their invention just over 20 years ago, optical traps have emerged as a powerful tool
with broad-reaching applications in biology and physics. Capabilities have evolved from …

Acoustic tweezers powerfully enable the contactless collective or selective manipulation of
microscopic objects. Trapping is achieved without pretagging, with forces several orders of …

For a physicist, and more generally for a scientist, one of the pleasures in everyday life is to
detect exemplifying manifestations and avatars of the topic he is working on. Why do small …

Theoretical expressions of the radiation pressure force for a dielectric sphere in the Rayleigh
regime of light scattering under illumination of a Gaussian laser beam with the fundamental …

Intended to provide an up-to-date overview of the field, this book is also likely to become a
standard work of reference on the science of droplets. Beginning with the theoretical …

Since the time of their introduction, optical tweezers (OTs) have grown to be a powerful tool
in the hands of biologists. OTs use highly focused laser light to guide, manipulate, or sort …

Abstract This Resource Letter provides a guide to the literature on optical tweezers, also
known as laser-based, gradient-force optical traps. Journal articles and books are cited for …

We present a new method to calculate trapping forces of dielectric particles with diameters
D? λ in arbitrary electromagnetic, time-invariant fields. The two components of the optical …

The description of electromagnetic arbitrary shaped beams (eg laser beams) under
expanded forms requires the evaluation of expansion coefficients known as beam shape …

We present and verify a theoretical model that predicts trapping forces (escape forces), force
constants (trap stiffnesses), and trapping potential depths for dielectric spheres with …