Optical trapping is the craft of manipulating objects with light. Decades after its first inception
in 1970, the technique has become a powerful tool for ultracold‐atom physics and …

The idea of using optical beams to attract objects has long been a dream of scientists and
the public alike. Over the years, a number of proposals have attempted to bring this concept …

This Perspective describes recent progress in optical trappings of nanoparticles based on
localized surface plasmon. This plasmonic optical trapping has great advantages over 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 …

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

Based on the generalized Lorenz-Mie theory and Maxwell stress tensor formulism, we
calculate the transverse force constant matrix and perform a linear stability analysis on a …

We report optical trapping and assembling of colloidal particles at a glass/solution interface
with a tightly focused laser beam of high intensity. It is generally believed that the particles …

The optical resonance between an absorbing particle and the trapping laser can enhance
the radiation force exerted on micro/nanoscale objects. However, the exact mechanism …

When an intense 1,064-nm continuous-wave laser is tightly focused at solution surfaces, it
exerts an optical force on molecules, polymers, and nanoparticles (NPs). Initially, molecules …

Laser radiation pressure is a basis of numerous applications in science and technology
such as atom cooling, particle manipulation, material processing, etc. This light force for the …