Optical tweezers use laser light to manipulate small particles. A new method has been advanced using Stampede2 supercomputer simulations that makes optical tweezers safer to use for potential ...

Cooling atoms to ultracold temperatures of less than one millikelvin and controlling their internal energy states has led to the development of numerous technologies, including optical atomic clocks 1 ...

In a major accomplishment for quantum mechanics research, scientists at Durham University in the UK have achieved the first-ever quantum entanglement of molecules. The team used precisely controlled ...

MIT researchers have harnessed integrated optical phased array (OPA) technology to develop a type of integrated optical tweezers, akin to a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam”—like the one that ...

A project at MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) has developed a new design of optical tweezers that could help the manipulation technology be utilized in new areas of research. The principle ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science; DOI 10.29026/oes.2023.230019 overviews optical trapping of optical nanoparticles. This article reviews the fundamentals and applications of optically ...

(Nanowerk News) Optical tweezers manipulate tiny things like cells and nanoparticles using lasers. While they might sound like tractor beams from science fiction, the fact is their development ...

Optical nanoparticles are nowadays one of the key elements of photonics. They do not only allow optical imaging of a plethora of systems (from cells to microelectronics), but also behave as highly ...