The field of optical tweezers and manipulation techniques has witnessed remarkable advancements, transcending its early applications in trapping micrometre‐sized objects to now encompass precise ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science; DOI 10.29026/oes.2023.230019 overviews optical trapping of optical nanoparticles. This article reviews the fundamentals and applications of optically ...

This figure categorized into 2 primary categories: off-chip light source excitation and on-chip light source excitation, distinguished by their approaches to exciting electromagnetic field hotspots.

MIT researchers have harnessed integrated optical phased array (OPA) technology to develop a type of integrated optical tweezers, akin to a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam”—like the one that ...

Researchers from the Department of Molecular Physics at the Fritz Haber Institute have demonstrated the first magneto-optical trap of a stable "closed-shell" molecule: aluminum monofluoride (AlF).

A project at MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) has developed a new design of optical tweezers that could help the manipulation technology be utilized in new areas of research. The principle ...