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20182021
most citedNegative optical torque on a microsphere in optical tweezers

38 citations · 61 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

quant-ph2021

Probing the screening of the Casimir interaction with optical tweezers

L. B. Pires, D. S. Ether, B. Spreng +13

We measure the colloidal interaction between two silica microspheres in aqueous solution in the distance range from m to m with the help of optical tweezers. When e…

physics.optics2021

Enantioselection and chiral sorting of single microspheres using optical pulling forces

R. Ali, R. S. Dutra, F. A. Pinheiro +1

We put forward a novel, twofold scheme that enables at the same time all-optical enantioselection and sorting of single multipolar chiral microspheres based on optical pulling forc…

physics.optics2020

Theory of optical tweezing of dielectric microspheres in chiral host media and its applications

Rfaqat Ali, R. S. Dutra, F. A. Pinheiro +2

We report for the first time the theory of optical tweezers of spherical dielectric particles embedded in a chiral medium. We develop a partial-wave (Mie) expansion to calculate th…

physics.optics202023 cited

Tailoring optical pulling forces with composite microspheres

R. Ali, F. A. Pinheiro, R. S. Dutra +1

Optical pulling forces or tractor beams can pull particles against light propagation by redirecting the incident photons forward. This is typically achieved using Bessel beams with…

physics.optics2019

Enantioselective manipulation of chiral nanoparticles using optical tweezers

R. Ali, F. A. Pinheiro, F. S. S. Rosa +2

We put forward an enantioselective method for chiral nanoparticles using optical tweezers. We demonstrate that the optical trapping force in a typical, realistic optical tweezing s…

physics.optics201938 cited

Negative optical torque on a microsphere in optical tweezers

K. Diniz, R. S. Dutra, L. B. Pires +3

We show that the optical force field in optical tweezers with elliptically polarized beams has the opposite handedness for a wide range of particle sizes and for the most common co…