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

The light-matter interaction has been at the heart of major advances from the atomic scale
right to the microscopic scale over the past four decades. Confinement by light, embodied by …

The pace of innovations in the field of optical trapping has ramped up in the past couple of
years. The implementation of structured light, leading to groundbreaking inventions such as …

We propose a theory to explain optical trapping by optical vortices (OVs), which are
emerging as important tools to trap mesoscopic particles. The common perception is that the …

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 …

The invention of optical tweezers almost forty years ago has triggered applications spanning
multiple disciplines and has also found its way into commercial products. A major …

We customize a transversely structured, tunable light landscape on the basis of orbital
angular momentum (OAM)-carrying beams for the purpose of advanced optical …

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 …

Undoubtedly, laser tweezers are the most recognized application of optically induced
mechanical action. Their operation is usually described in terms of conservative forces …

The biomedical sciences have benefited immensely from photonics technologies in the last
50 years. This includes the application of minute forces that enable the trapping and …