Single aerosol trapping with an annular beam: improved particle localisation. by Dear, R, Burnham, DR, Summers, MD, McGloin, D, Ritchie, G

“…Recent work on the modelling of single aerosol dynamics within an optical tweezer trap [Burnham et al., Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 2011, 28, 2856-2864] has indicated that the use of annular beams can allow smaller droplets to be trapped, which we experimentally verify. …”

Efficient pathway to NaCs ground state molecules by Claire Warner, Niccolò Bigagli, Aden Z Lam, Weijun Yuan, Siwei Zhang, Ian Stevenson, Sebastian Will

“…Highly efficient transfer is critical for the realization of many-body quantum phases of strongly dipolar NaCs molecules and high fidelity detection of single molecules, for example, in spin physics experiments in optical lattices and quantum information experiments in optical tweezer arrays.…”
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Out-of-equilibrium dynamics of two interacting optically-trapped particles by Victor S. Dotsenko, Alberto Imparato, Pascal Viot, Gleb Oshanin

“…The two particles interact via a harmonic potential, experience their own (independent from each other) noises characterized by two different temperatures $T_1$ and $T_2$, and each particle is being held by its own optical tweezer. Such a system with two particles coupled by hydrodynamic interactions was previously realised experimentally in Bérut et al. …”
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Opto-mechanical expulsion of individual micro-particles by laser-induced shockwave in air by M. C. Schroeder, U. Andral, J.-P. Wolf

“…The force is measured by observing the ejection and displacement of the particle when trapped in an optical tweezer. We demonstrate that even for distances ranging from 1.5 to 5.5 mm away from the filament, thus widely exceeding the filamentary region, an acoustic force of 500 pN to 8 nN (depending on the initial laser power) acts on the aerosol particle and expels it away from the optical trap.…”
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Advanced Mechanical Testing Technologies at the Cellular Level: The Mechanisms and Application in Tissue Engineering by Yingxuan Zhu, Mengqi Zhang, Qingqing Sun, Xiaofeng Wang, Xiaomeng Li, Qian Li

“…It summarizes the techniques used in micromechanical performance analysis, including atomic force microscope (AFM), optical tweezer (OT), magnetic tweezer (MT), and traction force microscope (TFM), and analyzes their testing mechanisms. …”
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A programmable optical angle clamp for rotary molecular motors. by Pilizota, T, Bilyard, T, Bai, F, Futai, M, Hosokawa, H, Berry, R

“…Optical tweezers are widely used for experimental investigation of linear molecular motors. …”

Multifunctional optical meta-tweezers with polarization-based modulation by Zhechun Lu, Yang Yu, Yuehua Deng, Zhaojian Zhang, Dongying Wang, Shaoqi Li, Chengzhi Huang, Junbo Yang

“…To address this challenge, we propose a novel approach that combines the dynamic and geometric phases with polarization multiplexing to create a monolayer multifunctional metasurface optical tweezer based on polarization modulation. Our method utilizes different circular polarizations of light to produce a both focused Gaussian field and a focused optical vortex (OV) field. …”
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Observer based optical manipulation of biological cells with robotic tweezers by Li, Xiang, Yan, Xiao, Sun, Dong, Cheah, Chien Chern

“…While several automatic manipulation techniques have recently been developed for optical tweezer systems, the measurement of the velocity of cell is required and the interaction between the cell and the manipulator of laser source is usually ignored in these formulations. …”
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Cubic-Phase Metasurface for Three-Dimensional Optical Manipulation by Hsin Yu Kuo, Sunil Vyas, Cheng Hung Chu, Mu Ku Chen, Xu Shi, Hiroaki Misawa, Yu-Jung Lu, Yuan Luo, Din Ping Tsai

“…The optical tweezer is one of the important techniques for contactless manipulation in biological research to control the motion of tiny objects. …”
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Fast optical transport of ultracold molecules over long distances by Yicheng Bao, Scarlett S Yu, Loïc Anderegg, Sean Burchesky, Derick Gonzalez-Acevedo, Eunmi Chae, Wolfgang Ketterle, Kang-Kuen Ni, John M Doyle

“…Positional stability of the molecular cloud allows for stable loading of an optical tweezer array with single molecules.…”
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Encoding arbitrary phase profiles to 2D diffraction orders with controllable polarization states by Zhao Ruizhe, Li Xin, Geng Guangzhou, Li Xiaowei, Li Junjie, Wang Yongtian, Huang Lingling

“…Generating 2D diffraction orders with uniform or tailored intensity distribution is highly desired for various applications including depth perception, parallel laser fabrication and optical tweezer. However, previous strategies lack the abilities to tailor multiple parameters of output light in different diffraction orders simultaneously. …”
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Teflon-on-Glass Molding Enables High-Throughput Fabrication of Hydrophilic-in-Hydrophobic Microwells for Bead-Based Digital Bioassays by Lisa Tripodi, Karen Ven, Dries Kil, Iene Rutten, Robert Puers, Jeroen Lammertyn

“…Their hydrophilic-in-hydrophobic (HIH) nature enables the isolation and analysis of individual beads, carrying the target molecules, which can be further manipulated accurately through optical tweezer (OT) setups. However, these Teflon HIH-microwell platforms are conventionally fabricated through a complex, time-consuming and labor-intensive dry lift-off procedure which involves a series of major steps, limiting the up-scaling potential of these platforms. …”
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Interaction between nearly hard colloidal spheres at an oil-water interface by Iain Muntz, Franceska Waggett, Michael Hunter, Andrew B. Schofield, Paul Bartlett, Davide Marenduzzo, Job H. J. Thijssen

“…This is in line with our optical-tweezer measurements for PMMA-PHSA colloids in bulk oil, which indicate that they are slightly charged.…”
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A Cavity-Coupled Rydberg Atom Array Platform for Quantum Computing by Rudelis, Alyssa

“…Our system simultaneously accommodates Rydberg excitation, reconfigurable optical tweezer arrays, selective atomic state addressing, and strong coupling to an optical cavity. …”
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Properties and dynamics of two-dimensional colloid-polymer mixtures by Mordan, M

“…Next, the depletion interaction between two superparamagnetic particles, near to a wall, is measured using a combination of optical tweezer microscopy, statistical analysis and first passage time theory. …”

Artificial intelligence‐assisted automatic and index‐based microbial single‐cell sorting system for One‐Cell‐One‐Tube by Zhidian Diao, Lingyan Kan, Yilong Zhao, Huaibo Yang, Jingyun Song, Chen Wang, Yang Liu, Fengli Zhang, Teng Xu, Rongze Chen, Yuetong Ji, Xixian Wang, Xiaoyan Jing, Jian Xu, Yuandong Li, Bo Ma

“…The target cell is automatically identified based on an AI‐assisted object detection model and then mobilized via an optical tweezer for sorting. Then, a cross‐interface contact microfluidic printing method that we developed enables the automated transfer of cells from the chip to the tube, which leads to coupling with subsequent single‐cell culture or sequencing. …”
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Control and Manipulation of Pathogens with an Optical Trap for Live Cell Imaging of Intercellular Interactions by Tam, Jenny M., Castro, Carlos E., Heath, Robert J. W., Cardenas, Michael L., Xavier, Ramnik J., Lang, Matthew J., Vyas, Jatin M.

“…This paper outlines a method that advances live cell imaging by integrating a spinning disk confocal microscope with an optical trap, also known as an optical tweezer, in order to provide exquisite spatial and temporal control of pathogenic organisms and place them in proximity to host cells, as determined by the operator. …”
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Trends in mechanobiology guided tissue engineering and tools to study cell-substrate interactions: a brief review by Arun Kumar Rajendran, Deepthi Sankar, Sivashanmugam Amirthalingam, Hwan D. Kim, Jayakumar Rangasamy, Nathaniel S. Hwang

“…This review would also cover various techniques that have been developed and employed to explore the effects of mechanosignalling, including imaging of mechanosensing proteins, atomic force microscopy (AFM), quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation measurements (QCMD), traction force microscopy (TFM), microdevice arrays, Spatio-temporal image analysis, optical tweezer force measurements, mechanoscanning ion conductance microscopy (mSICM), acoustofluidic interferometric device (AID) and so forth. …”
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