Self-stabilizing photonic levitation and propulsion of nanostructured macroscopic objects

Optical Manipulation along an Optical Axis with a Polarization Sensitive Meta-Lens

(2018) Hen Markovich et al.   NANO LETTERS

Materials challenges for the Starshot lightsail

(2018) Harry A. Atwater et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Silicon Mie resonators for highly directional light emission from monolayer MoS2

(2018) Ahmet Fatih Cihan et al.   Nature Photonics

Optical trapping with planar silicon metalenses

(2018) Georgiy Tkachenko et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Nanophotonic Heterostructures for Efficient Propulsion and Radiative Cooling of Relativistic Light Sails

(2018) Ognjen Ilic et al.   NANO LETTERS

Levitated optomechanics: introduction

(2017) M. Bhattacharya et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

Radiation pressure on a diffractive sailcraft

(2017) Grover A. Swartzlander   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

Planar metasurface retroreflector

(2017) Amir Arbabi et al.   Nature Photonics

Light-Induced Pulling and Pushing by the Synergic Effect of Optical Force and Photophoretic Force

(2017) Jinsheng Lu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Optically levitated nanoparticle as a model system for stochastic bistable dynamics

(2017) F. Ricci et al.   Nature Communications

Recent advances in planar optics: from plasmonic to dielectric metasurfaces

(2017) Patrice Genevet et al.   Optica

Topologically enabled optical nanomotors

(2017) Ognjen Ilic et al.   Science Advances

Optically resonant dielectric nanostructures

(2016) Arseniy I. Kuznetsov et al.   SCIENCE

Exploiting Optical Asymmetry for Controlled Guiding of Particles with Light

(2016) Ognjen Ilic et al.   ACS Photonics

Enhanced optical trapping via structured scattering

(2015) Michael A. Taylor et al.   Nature Photonics

Multi-dimensional single-spin nano-optomechanics with a levitated nanodiamond

(2015) Levi P. Neukirch et al.   Nature Photonics

Flat optics with designer metasurfaces

(2014) Nanfang Yu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

A long-range polarization-controlled optical tractor beam

(2014) Vladlen Shvedov et al.   Nature Photonics

Dielectric gradient metasurface optical elements

(2014) D. Lin et al.   SCIENCE

Advanced optical trapping by complex beam shaping

(2013) Mike Woerdemann et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Scattering-Free Optical Levitation of a Cavity Mirror

(2013) G. Guccione et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Full Control of Nanoscale Optical Transmission with a Composite Metascreen

(2013) Francesco Monticone et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Planar Photonics with Metasurfaces

(2013) A. V. Kildishev et al.   SCIENCE

Harnessing thermal fluctuations for purposeful activities: the manipulation of single micro-swimmers by adaptive photon nudging

(2013) Bian Qian et al.   Chemical Science

Out-of-Plane Reflection and Refraction of Light by Anisotropic Optical Antenna Metasurfaces with Phase Discontinuities

(2012) Francesco Aieta et al.   NANO LETTERS

Optically induced 'negative forces'

(2012) Aristide Dogariu et al.   Nature Photonics

Subkelvin Parametric Feedback Cooling of a Laser-Trapped Nanoparticle

(2012) Jan Gieseler et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Holographic optical tweezers and their relevance to lab on chip devices

(2011) Miles Padgett et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Optical pulling force

(2011) Jun Chen et al.   Nature Photonics

Optical tweezers study life under tension

(2011) Furqan M Fazal et al.   Nature Photonics

Tweezers with a twist

(2011) Miles Padgett et al.   Nature Photonics

Millikelvin cooling of an optically trapped microsphere in vacuum

(2011) Tongcang Li et al.   Nature Physics

Light Propagation with Phase Discontinuities: Generalized Laws of Reflection and Refraction

(2011) N. Yu et al.   SCIENCE

Light forces the pace: optical manipulation for biophotonics

(2010) David James Stevenson et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS

Stable optical lift

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

Flat dielectric grating reflectors with focusing abilities

(2010) David Fattal et al.   Nature Photonics

Toward quantum superposition of living organisms

(2010) Oriol Romero-Isart et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Active Motion of a Janus Particle by Self-Thermophoresis in a Defocused Laser Beam

(2010) Hong-Ren Jiang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Cavity opto-mechanics using an optically levitated nanosphere

(2010) D. E. Chang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Optically mediated particle clearing using Airy wavepackets

(2008) Jörg Baumgartl et al.   Nature Photonics