Optical Nanomanipulation

by David L Andrews, David S Bradshaw

Overview

This book provides a broad and amenable introduction to the wide-ranging field of optical nanomanipulation. The physical principles are established, and a concise survey is given to many of the most prominent current applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750341899
Publisher:	Iop Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	06/30/2022
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	7.42(w) x 10.39(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

David L Andrews is a Professor at the University of East Anglia in the UK and leads research on fundamental molecular photonics, energy harvesting and transport, optomechanical forces, quantum and nonlinear optics. He has over 350 research papers and fifteen books to his name. The current focus of his research group is on quantum aspects of optical transmission, optical vortices and chirality, frequency conversion, optical nanomanipulation and switching, optically nonlinear mechanisms in fluorescence, and energy transfer processes. Professor Andrews is a Fellow of the SPIE, the Optical Society of America, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Institute of Physics. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of SPIE.

David S Bradshaw is an honorary research associate at the University of East Anglia in the UK. He graduated twice from the same university, first receiving a Master’s degree in chemical physics (which included a year at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada) and then a PhD in theoretical chemical physics. Overall, David has co-written 80 research papers, including book chapters, all based on molecular quantum electrodynamics. He has also created a website explaining the key physics in this theory. His long running interests include optical trapping, resonance energy transfer, optical binding and nonlinear optics. David is a Member of the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents: Front matter / Nanomanipulation: why optical methods are best / Key properties of the radiation / Optically induced mechanical forces / Laser cooling and trapping of atoms / Dielectric and metal nanoparticles: Rayleigh regime / Larger nanoparticles: Lorenz–Mie regime and beyond / Optical trapping arrays / Orbital angular momentum, optical vortices and torques / Structured light: particle steering, traction and optical lift / Optofluidics: lab-on-a-chip mixing and actuating flow / Vortex plasmons and light-induced ring currents / Optical binding / Past, present and future / Bibliography