Enhanced optical trapping via structured scattering

Dynamic trapping and two-dimensional transport of swimming microorganisms using a rotating magnetic microrobot

(2014) Zhou Ye et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Left-handed optical radiation torque

(2014) Davit Hakobyan et al.   Nature Photonics

Search for Millicharged Particles Using Optically Levitated Microspheres

(2014) David C. Moore et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Observation of Brownian Motion in Liquids at Short Times: Instantaneous Velocity and Memory Loss

(2014) S. Kheifets et al.   SCIENCE

Gearing up for optical microrobotics: micromanipulation and actuation of synthetic microstructures by optical forces

(2013) Darwin Palima et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Experimental demonstration of optical transport, sorting and self-arrangement using a ‘tractor beam’

(2013) O. Brzobohatý et al.   Nature Photonics

Optical trapping and binding

(2013) Richard W Bowman et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Looking around corners and through thin turbid layers in real time with scattered incoherent light

(2012) Ori Katz et al.   Nature Photonics

Nanonewton optical force trap employing anti-reflection coated, high-refractive-index titania microspheres

(2012) Anita Jannasch et al.   Nature Photonics

Optimized back-focal-plane interferometry directly measures forces of optically trapped particles

(2012) Arnau Farré et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Resonances arising from hydrodynamic memory in Brownian motion

(2011) Thomas Franosch et al.   NATURE

Optical pulling force

(2011) Jun Chen et al.   Nature Photonics

Millikelvin cooling of an optically trapped microsphere in vacuum

(2011) Tongcang Li et al.   Nature Physics

Direct observation of the full transition from ballistic to diffusive Brownian motion in a liquid

(2011) Rongxin Huang et al.   Nature Physics

Optical Eigenmodes; exploiting the quadratic nature of the light-matter interaction

(2011) M. Mazilu et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Position clamping in a holographic counterpropagating optical trap

(2011) Richard Bowman et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Inertial Effects of a Small Brownian Particle Cause a Colored Power Spectral Density of Thermal Noise

(2011) Anita Jannasch et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Optical macro-tweezers: trapping of highly motile micro-organisms

(2011) G Thalhammer et al.   Journal of Optics

Optical trapping of micrometer-sized dielectric particles by cylindrical vector beams

(2010) Yuichi Kozawa et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Short-Range Force Detection Using Optically Cooled Levitated Microspheres

(2010) Andrew A. Geraci et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Optical manipulation and characterisation of aerosol particles using a single-beam gradient force optical trap

(2008) Laura Mitchem et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Optically mediated particle clearing using Airy wavepackets

(2008) Jörg Baumgartl et al.   Nature Photonics

The effect of Mie resonances on trapping in optical tweezers

(2008) Alexander B. Stilgoe et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Forces in optical tweezers with radially and azimuthally polarized trapping beams

(2008) Timo A. Nieminen et al.   OPTICS LETTERS