Optical tweezers: The next generation

Kishan Dholakia; Gabriel Spalding; Michael MacDonald

doi:10.1088/2058-7058/15/10/37

Optical tweezers: The next generation

Kishan Dholakia, Gabriel Spalding, Michael MacDonald

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Optical tweezers are discussed. Optical tweezers work because transparent particles with a higher index of refraction than their surrounding medium are attracted towards the region of maximum laser intensity. Optical tweezers are used in various applications such as molecular motors in biology, Bose-Einstein condensates in physics. Optical tweezers are also capable of trapping, orientation and guiding particles.

Original language	English
Pages	31-35
Number of pages	5
Volume	15
No.	10
Specialist publication	Physics World
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/15/10/37
Publication status	Published - 2002 Oct

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