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most citedTailoring optical pulling forces with composite microspheres

23 citations · 55 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

physics.optics2026

Enantioselective optical trapping and characterization of all dielectric disorder-enabled chiral particles

Guilherme T. Moura, Tanja Schoger, Kainã G. Diniz +9

We trap submicroscopic silica spheres coated with randomly distributed titanium dioxide nanoparticles in optical tweezers with Laguerre-Gaussian modes and observe orbital dynamics…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Circular Dichroism without absorption in isolated chiral dielectric Mie particles

Rafael S. Dutra, Felipe A. Pinheiro, Diney S. Ether +3

We demonstrate that an effect phenomenologically analogous to circular dichroism can arise even for dielectric and isotropic chiral spherical particles. By analyzing the polarimetr…

physics.optics2024★ 3 cited

Probing the chirality of a single microsphere trapped by a focused vortex beam through their orbital period

Kainã Diniz, Tanja Schoger, Arthur L. Fonseca +6

When microspheres are illuminated by tightly focused vortex beams, they can be trapped in a non-equilibrium steady state where they orbit around the optical axis. By using the Mie-…

physics.optics2020★ 23 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.optics2020★ 18 cited

Probing the optical chiral response of single nanoparticles with optical tweezers

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

We propose an enantioselective scheme to sort homogeneous chiral particles using optical tweezers. For a certain range of material parameters, we show that a highly focused circula…

physics.optics2018★ 10 cited

Optimizing optical tweezing with directional scattering in composite microspheres

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

Trapping of microspheres with a single focused laser beam is usually limited to materials with relative refractive indexes slightly larger than one. We show that directional light…