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20192026
most citedNegative optical torque on a microsphere in optical tweezers

38 citations · 57 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 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.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.optics2023★ 4 cited

Precise in situ radius measurement of individual optically trapped microspheres using negative optical torque exerted by focused vortex beams

Kainã Diniz, Tanja Schoger, Guilherme T. Moura +6

We demonstrate a new method for determining the radius of micron-sized particles trapped by a vortex laser beam. The technique is based on measuring the rotation experienced by the…

physics.optics2023★ 12 cited

Tailoring bistability in optical tweezers with vortex beams and spherical aberration

Arthur Luna da Fonseca, Kainã Diniz, Paula Borges Monteiro +7

We demonstrate a bistable optical trap by tightly focusing a vortex laser beam. The optical potential has the form of a Mexican hat with an additional minimum at the center. The bi…

physics.optics2019★ 38 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…