Theory of trapping forces in optical tweezers

By By A. Mazolli, P. A. M. Neto, H. Nussenzveig. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2003

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Kishan Dholakia
2. Michael Mazilu
3. Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
4. T. Nieminen
5. Pavel Zemánek
6. N. Heckenberg
7. Onofrio M. Maragò
8. P. Jones

In Biomedical Engineering

1. Kishan Dholakia
2. Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
3. Michael Mazilu
4. T. Nieminen
5. N. Heckenberg
6. Onofrio M. Maragò
7. P. Jones
8. Giovanni Volpe

Citations in the corpus

• Optical tweezers computational toolbox (2007, background): “…Mie theory (GLMT) (Gouesbet & Grehan 1982) which has seen significant use for modelling the optical trapping of homogeneous isotropic spheres (Ren et al. 1996, Wohland et al. 1996, Maia Neto & Nussenzweig 2000, Mazolli et al. 2003, Lock 2004a, Lock 2004b, Knöner et al. 2006, Neves et al. 2006).”
• Optical tweezers and their applications (2018, background): “Thus, the lower size limit of validity is often dependent on the computed quantity [27, 28, 29].”
• Optical manipulation of nanoparticles: a review (2008, methodology): “Alternative procedures involve the description of the incident beam using the localised beam model [38,39], partial waves [40] or s-expansion methods [41].”
• Colloquium: Gripped by light: Optical binding (2010, methodology): “If the object is much larger than the trapping light wavelength, the ray-optics model can be used Ashkin, 1992; Gussgard et al., 1992; Gu et al., 1997; Mazolli et al., 2003 .”