Roadmap for optical tweezers

Giovanni Volpe*, Onofrio M. Maragò, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Giuseppe Pesce, Alexander B. Stilgoe, Giorgio Volpe, Georgiy Tkachenko, Viet Giang Truong, Síle Nic Chormaic, Fatemeh Kalantarifard, Parviz Elahi, Mikael Käll, Agnese Callegari, Manuel I. Marqués, Antonio A.R. Neves, Wendel L. Moreira, Adriana Fontes, Carlos L. Cesar, Rosalba Saija, Abir SaidiPaul Beck, Jörg S. Eismann, Peter Banzer, Thales F.D. Fernandes, Francesco Pedaci, Warwick P. Bowen, Rahul Vaippully, Muruga Lokesh, Basudev Roy, Gregor Thalhammer-Thurner, Monika Ritsch-Marte, Laura Pérez García, Alejandro V. Arzola, Isaac Pérez Castillo, Aykut Argun, Till M. Muenker, Bart E. Vos, Timo Betz, Ilaria Cristiani, Paolo Minzioni, Peter J. Reece, Fan Wang, David McGloin, Justus C. Ndukaife, Romain Quidant, Reece P. Roberts, Cyril Laplane, Thomas Volz, Reuven Gordon, Dag Hanstorp, Javier Tello Marmolejo, Graham D. Bruce, Kishan Dholakia, Tongcang Li, Oto Brzobohatý, Stephen H. Simpson, Pavel Zemánek, Felix Ritort, Yael Roichman, Valeriia Bobkova, Raphael Wittkowski, Cornelia Denz, G. V. Pavan Kumar, Antonino Foti, Maria Grazia Donato, Pietro G. Gucciardi, Lucia Gardini, Giulio Bianchi, Anatolii V. Kashchuk, Marco Capitanio, Lynn Paterson, Philip H. Jones, Kirstine Berg-Sørensen, Younes F. Barooji, Lene B. Oddershede, Pegah Pouladian, Daryl Preece, Caroline Beck Adiels, Anna Chiara De Luca, Alessandro Magazzù, David Bronte Ciriza, Maria Antonia Iatì, Grover A. Swartzlander

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number022501
JournalJPhys Photonics
Volume5
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2023

Funding

FundersFunder number
University of Muenster
Beckman Laser Institute
Medical Research Council
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
European Commission
European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Marshall Space Flight Center
Human Frontier Science Program
OIST Graduate University
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme677511, 771201, 101002392, 871124, 766181, 812780, 721465
Boğaziçi Üniversitesi21B03SUP3
Air Force Office of Scientific ResearchFA9550-20-1-0052
Czech Academy of Sciences Praemium Academiae and Czech Science Foundation21-19245K
Australian Research CouncilCE170100009, CE110001013, DP170103010, DP180101002
Office of Naval ResearchN00014-18-1-2371
Stiftelsen för Strategisk ForskningITM17-0384
UK Research and Innovation107249
Danmarks GrundforskningsfondDNRF116
MERLIN-MICROPLASTIQUE17/1212947B
Horizon 20202018-16-HH.0
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaRGPIN-2017-03830
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilEP/P030017/1
Novo Nordisk FondenNNF20OC0061673
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft433682494—SFB 1459
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/Medical Research CouncilEP/R035156/1, EP/R03 5563/1, EP/R035067/1
National Science FoundationPHY-2110591
Vetenskapsrådet2019-02376
NextGeneration EUPE0000023-NQSTI
Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond0135-00142B, NNF20OC0061176
SAMOTHRACEECS00000022
Israel Science Foundation385/21, 998/17
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasPID2019-111148GB-I00
European Union Horizon 2020 programITN 721465
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science19K05316, 18F1836, P18367
Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro21420
National Aeronautics and Space Administration80NSSC18K0867, 80NSSC19K0975

    Keywords

    • optical manipulation
    • optical trapping
    • optical tweezers

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