When Art Ashkin, Steve Chu, and their colleagues at Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ, first invented optical tweezers ... When they looked into the trap with a higher-quality microscope, they confirmed what ...

Yao Baoli and Dr. Xu Xiaohao from Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed a full-gray optical trap in structured light ...

The Lumicks C-Trap® is a correlative single-molecule system combining optical tweezers with multicolour fluorescence imaging. This enables simultaneous manipulation of trapped molecules of interest ...

This is a diagram of a NIST ion trap that incorporates an optical fiber to collect light emitted by the ions (electrically charged atoms). Individual electrodes used to trap an ion 30 to 50 ...

Unlike the other technologies highlighted in this issue, optical trapping systems are not typically purchased off-the-shelf. Rather, they are specially built to custom specifications, often at ...