Tweezers with a twist

By Miles J. Padgett, Richard W. Bowman. 2011

1,930 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Yijie Shen
2. G. Stupakov
3. D. Xiang
4. E. Hemsing
5. Andrew Forbes
6. Onofrio M. Maragò
7. P. Jones
8. I. Mokhun

In Biomedical Engineering

1. Onofrio M. Maragò
2. P. Jones
3. M. Iatì
4. P. Polimeno
5. F. Patti
6. Cristian Degli Esposti Boschi
7. A. Magazzù
8. Maria Grazia Donato

Citations in the corpus

• Raman Techniques: Fundamentals and Frontiers (2019, background): “Twisted Laguerre-Gaussian lasers, with orbital angular momentum (OAM) and characterised by doughnutshaped intensity profiles, are of great interest to a number of growing research fields such as ultra-cold atoms [262–264], microscopy and imaging [265, 266], atomic and nanoparticle manipulation [267,”
• Structured Light: Ideas and Concepts (2020, background): “The principle of Figure 11A can be used in optically driven sensors and machines for micro-fluidic environments, for fine adjustment of selective chemical interactions, in studies of the fluid and particle’s properties [110].”
• Beam by design: laser manipulation of electrons in modern accelerators (2014, background): “…of emerging applications enabled by optical OAM light suggests exciting new research opportunities in the hard x-ray regime where well-defined OAM provides an additional degree of free- dom to probe the deep structure and behavior of matter (Molina-Terriza et al., 2007; Padgett and Bowman, 2011).”
• Optical tweezers and their applications (2018, methodology): “Since their first demonstration in 1986 by Sir Arthur Ashkin [5], they have become a key technique for the trapping, manipulation, and characterisation of atoms [7], microscopic [8, 9] and nanoscopic particles [10], as well as biomolecules, viruses, bacteria and cells [11, 12, 13].”
• Electromagnetic metasurfaces: physics and applications (2019, neutral): “In addition, the doughnut-like intensity profile of vortex beams is highly desired for numerous applications, such as stimulated emission depletion microscopy [321] and optical tweezers [322].”
• Creation and detection of optical modes with spatial light modulators (2016, background): “trapping and tweezing [11], quantum information processing [12], mode division multiplexling [13], microscopy [14], 3D holographic imaging and metrology [15–17] and even in lasers [18].”