Roadmap for optical tweezers [PDF]
JPhys Photonics, 2023 Optical tweezers are tools made of light that enable contactless pushing, trapping, and manipulation of objects, ranging from atoms to space light sails.
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Optofluidic Tweezers: Efficient and Versatile Micro/Nano-Manipulation Tools
Micromachines, 2023 Optical tweezers (OTs) can transfer light momentum to particles, achieving the precise manipulation of particles through optical forces. Due to the properties of non-contact and precise control, OTs have provided a gateway for exploring the mysteries ...
Yuchen Zhu +8 more
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Plasmonic tweezers: for nanoscale optical trapping and beyond
Light: Science & Applications, 2021 Optical manipulation: plasmonic tweezers Plasmonic tweezers exploit sub-wavelength confinement of light to allow trapping and manipulation of small particles with far greater precision than usual.
Yuquan Zhang +6 more
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Optical Fiber Tweezers: A Versatile Tool for Optical Trapping and Manipulation
Micromachines, 2020 Optical trapping is widely used in different areas, ranging from biomedical applications, to physics and material sciences. In recent years, optical fiber tweezers have attracted significant attention in the field of optical trapping due to their ...
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Spatially selective manipulation of cells with single-beam acoustical tweezers
Nature Communications, 2020 Acoustical tweezers can exert forces several orders of magnitude greater than optical tweezers but the absence of spatial selectivity and their limited resolution has prevented their use for many applications in microbiology.
Michael Baudoin +9 more
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3D-Printed Micro-Tweezers with a Compliant Mechanism Designed Using Topology Optimization
Micromachines, 2021 The development of handling technology for microscopic biological samples such as cells and spheroids has been required for the advancement of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.
Yukihito Moritoki +10 more
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Dual-fiber optical tweezers integrating high-sensitivity structured-light displacement measurement system on fiber end-face [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe dual-fiber optical tweezers have become widespread in trapping, assembling, and sensing due to their simple fabrication process and flexible operation.
Guofeng Li +10 more
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Formation of Ultracold Molecules by Merging Optical Tweezers. [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2023 We demonstrate the formation of a single RbCs molecule during the merging of two optical tweezers, one containing a single Rb atom and the other a single Cs atom.
Daniel K. Ruttley +6 more
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Entanglement transport and a nanophotonic interface for atoms in optical tweezers [PDF]
Science, 2021 Description Quantum trapping and shuffling Programmable arrays of atoms or ions trapped in optical potentials have recently emerged as a leading platform for quantum simulation.
Tamara Ðorđević +7 more
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Electromagnetic Forces and Torques: From Dielectrophoresis to Optical Tweezers
Chemical Reviews, 2023 Electromagnetic forces and torques enable many key technologies, including optical tweezers or dielectrophoresis. Interestingly, both techniques rely on the same physical process: the interaction of an oscillating electric field with a particle of matter.
Marco Riccardi, O. Martin
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