Multidimensional optical tweezers synthetized by rigid-body emulated structured light

Liuhao Zhu; Yuping Tai; Hehe Li; Huajie Hu; Xinzhong Li; Yangjian Cai; Yijie Shen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.490103

Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 9, 1524(2023)

Multidimensional optical tweezers synthetized by rigid-body emulated structured light

Liuhao Zhu¹, Yuping Tai^1,2, Hehe Li¹, Huajie Hu¹, Xinzhong Li^1,2,7、*, Yangjian Cai^3,4,8、*, and Yijie Shen^5,6,9、*

Author Affiliations

¹School of Physics and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China

²State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China

³Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China

⁴Joint Research Center of Light Manipulation Science and Photonic Integrated Chip of East China Normal University and Shandong Normal University, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China

⁵Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

⁶Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and The Photonics Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637378, Singapore

⁷e-mail: xzli@haust.edu.cn

⁸e-mail: yangjian_cai@163.com

⁹e-mail: yijie.shen@ntu.edu.sg

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Paper Information

Category: Instrumentation and Measurements

Received: Mar. 20, 2023

Accepted: Jun. 26, 2023

Published Online: Aug. 28, 2023

The Author Email: Xinzhong Li (xzli@haust.edu.cn), Yangjian Cai (yangjian_cai@163.com), Yijie Shen (yijie.shen@ntu.edu.sg)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.490103

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