Roadmap for optical tweezers
Journal article, 2023

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.

optical manipulation

optical tweezers

optical trapping

Author

Giovanni Volpe

University of Gothenburg

Onofrio M. Maragò

Consiglo Nazionale Delle Richerche

Halina Rubinsetein

University of Queensland

Giuseppe Pesce

University of Naples Federico II

Alexander Stilgoe

University of Queensland

Giorgio Volpe

University College London (UCL)

Georgiy Tkachenko

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

Viet Giang Truong

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

Síle Nic Chormaic

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

Fatemeh Kalantarifard

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Parviz Elahi

Bogazici University

Mikael Käll

Chalmers, Physics, Nano and Biophysics

Agnese Callegari

University of Gothenburg

Manuel I. Marqués

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM)

Antonio Alvaro Ranha Neves

Universidade Federal do ABC

Wendel L. Moreira

Petrobras

Adriana Fontes

Federal University of Pernambuco

Carlos L. Cesar

State University of Campinas

Federal University of Ceará

Rosalba Saija

University of Messina

Abir Saidi

University of Messina

Paul Beck

Max Planck Society

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)

Jörg S. Eismann

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)

Max Planck Society

University of Graz

Peter Banzer

Max Planck Society

University of Graz

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)

Thales F.D. Fernandes

Centre de Biochimie Structurale

Francesco Pedaci

Centre de Biochimie Structurale

Warwick P. Bowen

University of Queensland

Rahul Vaippully

IIT Madras

Muruga Lokesh

IIT Madras

Basudev Roy

IIT Madras

Gregor Thalhammer-Thurner

Medical University of Innsbruck

Monika Ritsch-Marte

Medical University of Innsbruck

Laura Pérez García

University of Gothenburg

Alejandro V. Arzola

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Isaac Pérez Castillo

Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa

Aykut Argun

University of Gothenburg

Till M. Muenker

University of Göttingen

Bart E. Vos

University of Göttingen

Timo Betz

University of Göttingen

Ilaria Cristiani

Universita degli studi di Pavia

Paolo Minzioni

Universita degli studi di Pavia

Peter J. Reece

University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Fan Wang

Beihang University

David McGloin

University of Technology Sydney

Justus C. Ndukaife

Vanderbilt University

R. Quidant

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

Reece P. Roberts

Macquarie University

Cyril Laplane

Macquarie University

Thomas Volz

Macquarie University

Reuven Gordon

University of Victoria

Dag Hanstorp

University of Gothenburg

Javier Tello Marmolejo

University of Gothenburg

Graham D. Bruce

University of St Andrews

Kishan Dholakia

Yonsei University

University of Adelaide

University of St Andrews

Tongcang Li

Purdue University

Oto Brzobohatý

Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Stephen H. Simpson

Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Pavel Zemánek

Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Felix Ritort

University of Barcelona

Yael Roichman

Tel Aviv University

Valeriia Bobkova

University of Münster

Raphael Wittkowski

University of Münster

Cornelia Denz

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

University of Münster

G. V. Pavan Kumar

Indian Institute of Science

Antonino Foti

Consiglo Nazionale Delle Richerche

Maria Grazia Donato

Consiglo Nazionale Delle Richerche

Pietro G. Gucciardi

Consiglo Nazionale Delle Richerche

Lucia Gardini

LENS - European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy

CNR-INO

Giulio Bianchi

University of Florence

LENS - European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy

Anatolii V. Kashchuk

LENS - European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy

University of Florence

Marco Capitanio

University of Florence

LENS - European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy

Lynn Paterson

Heriot-Watt University

Philip H. Jones

University College London (UCL)

Kirstine Berg-Sørensen

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Younes F. Barooji

Niels Bohr Institute

Lene B. Oddershede

Niels Bohr Institute

Pegah Pouladian

UCI Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic

Daryl Preece

UCI Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic

Caroline B. Adiels

University of Gothenburg

Anna Chiara De Luca

Consiglo Nazionale Delle Richerche

Alessandro Magazzù

Consiglo Nazionale Delle Richerche

David Bronte Ciriza

Consiglo Nazionale Delle Richerche

Maria Antonia Iatì

Consiglo Nazionale Delle Richerche

Grover A. Swartzlander

Rochester Institute of Technology

JPhys Photonics

25157647 (eISSN)

Vol. 5 2 022501

Subject Categories

Architectural Engineering

Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

Other Physics Topics

DOI

10.1088/2515-7647/acb57b

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Latest update

5/29/2023