📖 Improving the Performances of Optical Tweezers by Using Simple Binary Diffractive Optics
✍ By Kamel Aït-Ameur and Abdelkrim Hasnaoui
👉 mdpi.com/2304-6732/11/8/744
#Photonics #Optics #OpticalTweezers #ImprovedLongitudinalStability #HighOrderLaguerreGaussModes #LaserBeamShaping

Steven Chu on optical tweezers: Art Ashkin trapped E. coli with light in the mid-1980s; Chu's bet was to grab a single biomolecule via a polystyrene sphere — two years later it worked.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4

#AASF #StevenChu #OpticalTweezers