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Roadmap for optical tweezers

  • Giovanni Volpe*
  • , Onofrio M. Maragò
  • , Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
  • , Giuseppe Pesce
  • , Alexander B. Stilgoe
  • , Giorgio Volpe
  • , Georgiy Tkachenko
  • , Viet Giang Truong
  • , Síle Nic Chormaic
  • , Fatemeh Kalantarifard
  • , Parviz Elahi
  • , Mikael Käll
  • , Agnese Callegari
  • , Manuel I. Marqués
  • , Antonio A.R. Neves
  • , Wendel L. Moreira
  • , Adriana Fontes
  • , Carlos L. Cesar
  • , Rosalba Saija
  • , Abir Saidi
  • Paul Beck, Jörg S. Eismann, Peter Banzer, Thales F.D. Fernandes, Francesco Pedaci, Warwick P. Bowen, Rahul Vaippully, Muruga Lokesh, Basudev Roy, Gregor Thalhammer-Thurner, Monika Ritsch-Marte, Laura Pérez García, Alejandro V. Arzola, Isaac Pérez Castillo, Aykut Argun, Till M. Muenker, Bart E. Vos, Timo Betz, Ilaria Cristiani, Paolo Minzioni, Peter J. Reece, Fan Wang, David McGloin, Justus C. Ndukaife, Romain Quidant, Reece P. Roberts, Cyril Laplane, Thomas Volz, Reuven Gordon, Dag Hanstorp, Javier Tello Marmolejo, Graham D. Bruce, Kishan Dholakia, Tongcang Li, Oto Brzobohatý, Stephen H. Simpson, Pavel Zemánek, Felix Ritort, Yael Roichman, Valeriia Bobkova, Raphael Wittkowski, Cornelia Denz, G. V. Pavan Kumar, Antonino Foti, Maria Grazia Donato, Pietro G. Gucciardi, Lucia Gardini, Giulio Bianchi, Anatolii V. Kashchuk, Marco Capitanio, Lynn Paterson, Philip H. Jones, Kirstine Berg-Sørensen, Younes F. Barooji, Lene B. Oddershede, Pegah Pouladian, Daryl Preece, Caroline Beck Adiels, Anna Chiara De Luca, Alessandro Magazzù, David Bronte Ciriza, Maria Antonia Iatì, Grover A. Swartzlander
*Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Gothenburg
  • University of Queensland
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • University College London
  • Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
  • Bogazici University
  • Chalmers University of Technology
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • Universidade Federal do ABC
  • Petrobras
  • Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
  • Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • University of Messina
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Innsbruck Medical University
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
  • University of Göttingen
  • University of Pavia
  • University of New South Wales
  • Beihang University
  • University of Technology Sydney
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
  • Macquarie University
  • University of Victoria BC
  • University of St Andrews
  • Purdue University
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • University of Barcelona
  • Tel Aviv University
  • University of Münster
  • Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune
  • University of Florence
  • Heriot-Watt University
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University of California at Irvine
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Université de Montpellier
  • National Research Council of Italy
  • Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • University of Graz
  • Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

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Abstract

Optical tweezers are tools made of light that enable contactless pushing, trapping, and manipulation of objects, ranging from atoms to space light sails. Since the pioneering work by Arthur Ashkin in the 1970s, optical tweezers have evolved into sophisticated instruments and have been employed in a broad range of applications in the life sciences, physics, and engineering. These include accurate force and torque measurement at the femtonewton level, microrheology of complex fluids, single micro- and nano-particle spectroscopy, single-cell analysis, and statistical-physics experiments. This roadmap provides insights into current investigations involving optical forces and optical tweezers from their theoretical foundations to designs and setups. It also offers perspectives for applications to a wide range of research fields, from biophysics to space exploration.

Original languageEnglish
Article number022501
JournalJPhys Photonics
Volume5
Issue number2
Number of pages136
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Keywords

  • Optical manipulation
  • Optical trapping
  • Optical tweezers

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