Optical pulling of airborne absorbing particles and smut spores over a meter-scale distance with negative photophoretic force

Optical trapping and rotation of airborne absorbing particles with a single focused laser beam

(2014) Jinda Lin et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Trapping of individual airborne absorbing particles using a counterflow nozzle and photophoretic trap for continuous sampling and analysis

(2014) Yong-Le Pan et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

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

(2013) O. Brzobohatý et al.   Nature Photonics

Measurement of Raman spectra of single airborne absorbing particles trapped by a single laser beam

(2013) Lin Ling et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Optical pulling force and conveyor belt effect in resonator–waveguide system

(2013) Varat Intaraprasonk et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Optically induced 'negative forces'

(2012) Aristide Dogariu et al.   Nature Photonics

Photophoretic trapping of absorbing particles in air and measurement of their single-particle Raman spectra

(2012) Yong-Le Pan et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Observation of trapping and transporting air-borne absorbing particles with a single optical beam

(2012) Ze Zhang et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optical Conveyors: A Class of Active Tractor Beams

(2012) David B. Ruffner et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Optical pulling force

(2011) Jun Chen et al.   Nature Photonics

Characterization of bacterial spore germination using phase-contrast and fluorescence microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and optical tweezers

(2011) Lingbo Kong et al.   Nature Protocols

Robust trapping and manipulation of airborne particles with a bottle beam

(2011) Vladlen G. Shvedov et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Trapping and transporting aerosols with a single optical bottle beam generated by moiré techniques

(2011) Peng Zhang et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Single Gradientless Light Beam Drags Particles as Tractor Beams

(2011) Andrey Novitsky et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Negative Nonconservative Forces: Optical “Tractor Beams” for Arbitrary Objects

(2011) S. Sukhov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Giant Optical Manipulation

(2010) Vladlen G. Shvedov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Photophoresis—Light induced motion of particles suspended in gas

(2009) Olga Jovanovic   JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER

Optical guiding of absorbing nanoclusters in air

(2009) Vladlen G. Shvedov et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Experiments on negative photophoresis and application to the atmosphere

(2007) G WURM et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT