Art Ashkin and the Origins of Optical Trapping and Particle Manipulation

Methods Mol Biol. 2022:2478:11-22. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2229-2_2.

Authors

Matthias D Koch¹, Joshua W Shaevitz²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
² Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. shaevitz@princeton.edu.

PMID: 36063316
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2229-2_2

Abstract

A brief history of optical forces, the invention of optical tweezers, and their application to biological problems.

Keywords: Arthur Ashkin; Optical trap; Optical tweezers.

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MeSH terms

Optical Tweezers*