Optical tweezers (originally called single-beam gradient force trap) are scientific instruments that use a highly focused laser beam to hold and move microscopic...
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Tweezers are small hand tools used for grasping objects too small to be easily handled with the human fingers. Tweezers are thumb-driven forceps most...
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Arthur Ashkin (category American optical physicists)
at Bell Labs. Ashkin has been considered by many as the father of optical tweezers, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 at age 96...
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Radiation pressure (section Optical tweezers)
Prize in Physics), interferometry (2017 Nobel Prize in Physics) and optical tweezers (2018 Nobel Prize in Physics). Radiation pressure can equally well...
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Force spectroscopy (section Optical tweezers)
perform force spectroscopy include atomic force microscopy, optical tweezers, magnetic tweezers, acoustic force spectroscopy, microneedles, and biomembranes...
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simulation of Vortex Diffractive Optical Element from near field to far field by Holo/Or Optical vortices and optical tweezers at the University of Glasgow...
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Digital microfluidics (section Optical tweezers)
methods include the use of magnetic particles, liquid-liquid extraction, optical tweezers, and hydrodynamic effects. For magnetic particle separations a droplet...
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Biophotonics (section Optical tweezers)
easily detected by epifluorescent microscopy".[attribution needed] Optical tweezers (or traps) are scientific tools employed to maneuver microscopic particles...
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Depletion force (section Optical tweezers)
using a variety of instrumentation including atomic force microscopy, optical tweezers, and hydrodynamic force balance machines. Atomic force microscopy (AFM)...
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Magnetic tweezers (MT) are scientific instruments for the manipulation and characterization of biomolecules or polymers. These apparatus exert forces and...
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used the tweezers to capture living bacteria without harming them. He immediately began studying biological systems using the optical tweezers, which are...
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Quantum optics (redirect from Quantum optical)
positioning clouds of atoms or even small biological samples in an optical trap or optical tweezers by laser beam. This, along with Doppler cooling and Sisyphus...
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frequency of the optical supply. a dual-mirror optical cavity that holds around 20,000 cesium atoms trapped by means of optical tweezers and laser-cooled...
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Laser cooling (redirect from Optical refrigeration)
precisely tuned relative to the atomic transitions. List of laser articles Optical tweezers – Scientific instruments Zeeman Slower – Instrument for slowing and...
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known as optical tweezers. An advantage of the single-beam design is that no two laser beams need to be exactly adjusted to make their optical axes match...
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Airy beam (section Optical trapping and manipulation)
Circularly-polarized Airy light-sheet spinner tweezers and particle transport (see also: Optical tweezers) Researchers at the University of St. Andrews...
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optical physics. Optical tweezers are a powerful and versatile tool used in atomic physics. Developed in the 1970s by Arthur Ashkin, optical tweezers...
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as optical tweezers and AFM have been used to understand protein folding mechanisms of isolated proteins as well as proteins with chaperones. Optical tweezers...
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Index of optics articles (redirect from List of optical topics)
optical sine theorem optical spectrum optical theorem optical tweezers optical waveguide optical window optics optoelectronics paraxial approximation pattern...
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Spatial light modulator (category Optical components)
lithography.[citation needed] SLMs are also used in optical computing and holographic optical tweezers. Usually, an SLM modulates the intensity of the light...
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trapping of single atoms in optical tweezers. Experimental platforms leveraging ultracold neutral atoms in optical tweezers and optical lattices have become...
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pioneering research in atom optics, laser micro-manipulation using optical tweezers, laser enhanced ionisation spectroscopy, biophysics and quantum physics...
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and simpler method for preparing cultures from a single cell than optical tweezers and micromanipulators. Serial dilution is one of the core foundational...
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Chapel Hill, running a lab that conducted nanoparticle research with optical tweezers (lasers). He lived in Apex, North Carolina, and had two young daughters...
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Optical tweezers Raman spectroscopy (OTRS) – Used to study individual particles, and even biochemical processes in single cells trapped by optical tweezers...
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Dielectrophoresis (section Optical dielectrophoresis)
When manipulating living cells, optical dielectrophoresis provides a non-damaging alternative to optical tweezers, as the intensity of light is about...
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shortly after magnetic BEC production. Magneto-optical trap Bose-Einstein condensation Optical tweezers Laser cooling Sisyphus cooling Raman cooling Ketterle...
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laser-induced fluorescence). Nd:YAG lasers are frequently used to build optical tweezers for biological applications. This is because Nd:YAG lasers mostly emit...
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force spectroscopy approaches such as acoustic force spectroscopy and optical tweezers, and these measurements can be performed at physiological conditions...
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