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

Ultrastrong Optical Binding of Metallic Nanoparticles

(2012) Vassili Demergis et al.   NANO LETTERS

Optical Conveyors: A Class of Active Tractor Beams

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

Laser tractor beams

(2011) Juan José Sáenz   Nature Photonics

Optical pulling force

(2011) Jun Chen et al.   Nature Photonics

Optical tweezers study life under tension

(2011) Furqan M Fazal et al.   Nature Photonics

Plasmon nano-optical tweezers

(2011) Mathieu L Juan et al.   Nature Photonics

Shaping the future of manipulation

(2011) K Dholakia et al.   Nature Photonics

Tweezers with a twist

(2011) Miles Padgett et al.   Nature Photonics

Geometrical interpretation of negative radiation forces of acoustical Bessel beams on spheres

(2011) Likun Zhang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

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

Generalized Lorenz–Mie theories and description of electromagnetic arbitrary shaped beams: Localized approximations and localized beam models, a review

(2010) G. Gouesbet et al.   JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER

Stable optical lift

(2010) Grover A. Swartzlander et al.   Nature Photonics

Optical solenoid beams

(2010) Sang-Hyuk Lee et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Experimental and theoretical determination of optical binding forces

(2010) O. Brzobohatý et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Negative radiation pressure on gain medium structures

(2010) Amit Mizrahi et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

On the concept of “tractor beams”

(2010) S. Sukhov et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Colloquium: Gripped by light: Optical binding

(2010) Kishan Dholakia et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Negative axial radiation force on a fluid and elastic spheres illuminated by a high-order Bessel beam of progressive waves

(2009) F G Mitri   Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical