Roadmap for optical tweezers

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.

Citation

Volpe , G , Maragò , O M , Rubinsztein-Dunlop , H , Pesce , G , Stilgoe , A B , Volpe , G , Tkachenko , G , Truong , V G , Chormaic , S N , Kalantarifard , F , Elahi , P , Käll , M , Callegari , A , Marqués , M I , Neves , A A R , Moreira , W L , Fontes , A , Cesar , C L , Saija , R , Saidi , A , Beck , P , Eismann , J S , Banzer , P , Fernandes , T F D , Pedaci , F , Bowen , W P , Vaippully , R , Lokesh , M , Roy , B , Thalhammer-Thurner , G , Ritsch-Marte , M , García , L P , Arzola , A V , Castillo , I P , Argun , A , Muenker , T M , Vos , B E , Betz , T , Cristiani , I , Minzioni , P , Reece , P J , Wang , F , McGloin , D , Ndukaife , J C , Quidant , R , Roberts , R P , Laplane , C , Volz , T , Gordon , R , Hanstorp , D , Marmolejo , J T , Bruce , G D , Dholakia , K , Li , T , Brzobohatý , O , Simpson , S H , Zemánek , P , Ritort , F , Roichman , Y , Bobkova , V , Wittkowski , R , Denz , C , Kumar , G V P , Foti , A , Donato , M G , Gucciardi , P G , Gardini , L , Bianchi , G , Kashchuk , A V , Capitanio , M , Paterson , L , Jones , P H , Berg-Sørensen , K , Barooji , Y F , Oddershede , L B , Pouladian , P , Preece , D , Adiels , C B , De Luca , A C , Magazzù , A , Bronte Ciriza , D , Iatì , M A & Swartzlander , G A 2023 , ' Roadmap for optical tweezers ' , Journal of Physics: Photonics , vol. 5 , no. 2 , 022501 . https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7647/acb57b

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Journal of Physics: Photonics

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Peer reviewed

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https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7647/acb57b

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2515-7647

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Funding: The authors acknowledge funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P030017/1).

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University of St Andrews Research

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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/27423