Photonic tractor beams: a review

Weiqiang Ding; Tongtong Zhu; Lei-Ming Zhou; Cheng-Wei Qiu

doi:10.1117/1.AP.1.2.024001

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 1, Issue 2, 024001(2019)

Photonic tractor beams: a review

Weiqiang Ding^1、*, Tongtong Zhu^1,2, Lei-Ming Zhou², and Cheng-Wei Qiu^2、*

Author Affiliations

¹Harbin Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, Harbin, China

²National University of Singapore, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Singapore

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Category: Reviews

Received: Oct. 12, 2018

Accepted: Feb. 27, 2019

Published Online: Apr. 2, 2019

The Author Email: Weiqiang Ding (wqding@hit.edu.cn), Cheng-Wei Qiu (chengwei.qiu@nus.edu.sg)

DOI:10.1117/1.AP.1.2.024001

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