Virtual Feature Issue

Optical cooling and trapping: introduction

Antonio A. R. Neves, Philip H. Jones, Le Luo, and Onofrio M. Maragò

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(5), OCT1-OCT5 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Computational toolbox for optical tweezers in geometrical optics

Agnese Callegari, Mite Mijalkov, A. Burak Gököz, and Giovanni Volpe

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(5), B11-B19 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (9)]

Electromagnetic trapping of chiral molecules: orientational effects of the irradiating beam

David S. Bradshaw and David L. Andrews

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(5), B25-B31 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical forces experienced by arbitrary-sized spherical scatterers from superpositions of equal-frequency Bessel beams

Leonardo André Ambrosio and Michel Zamboni-Rached

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(5), B37-B46 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Time-average forces over Rayleigh particles by superposition of equal-frequency arbitrary-order Bessel beams

Leonardo André Ambrosio and Mariana de Matos Ferreira

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(5), B67-B74 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Actio et reactio in optical binding

Sergey Sukhov, Alexander Shalin, David Haefner, and Aristide Dogariu

Opt. Express 23(1), 247-252 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of multiple scattering to optical forces on a sphere near an optical waveguide

Jian Xu, Wei-Ping Zang, and Jian-Guo Tian

Opt. Express 23(4), 4195-4205 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Direct measurement of axial optical forces

Gregor Thalhammer, Lisa Obmascher, and Monika Ritsch-Marte

Opt. Express 23(5), 6112-6129 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Prediction of metallic nano-optical trapping forces by finite element-boundary integral method

Xiao-Min Pan, Kai-Jiang Xu, Ming-Lin Yang, and Xin-Qing Sheng

Opt. Express 23(5), 6130-6144 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Forces due to pulsed beams in optical tweezers: linear effects

Nathaniel du Preez-Wilkinson, Alexander B. Stilgoe, Thuraya Alzaidi, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, and Timo A. Nieminen

Opt. Express 23(6), 7190-7208 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Complex rotational dynamics of multiple spheroidal particles in a circularly polarized, dual beam trap

Oto Brzobohatý, Alejandro V. Arzola, Martin Šiler, Lukáš Chvátal, Petr Jákl, Stephen Simpson, and Pavel Zemánek

Opt. Express 23(6), 7273-7287 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (8)]

Non-spherical gold nanoparticles trapped in optical tweezers: shape matters

Oto Brzobohatý, Martin Šiler, Jan Trojek, Lukáš Chvátal, Vítězslav Karásek, and Pavel Zemánek

Opt. Express 23(7), 8179-8189 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase-space properties of magneto-optical traps utilising micro-fabricated gratings.

J. P. McGilligan, P. F. Griffin, E. Riis, and A. S. Arnold

Opt. Express 23(7), 8948-8959 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Optical collimation of an atomic beam using a white light molasses

R. D. Glover and T. Bastin

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(5), B1-B10 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Recurrence for motion of solitons of the Bose–Einstein condensate in a dynamic trap

Nikolay N. Rosanov and Nina V. Vysotina

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(5), B20-B24 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Storage time of cold Rb atoms in an optical dipole trap formed by a multimode fiber laser

Weilun Hung, Panpan Huang, Feng-Chuan Wu, M. Bruvelis, Hau-Yl Xiao, A. Ekers, and Ite A. Yu

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(5), B32-B36 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Coherent pumping for fast laser cooling of doped crystals

Andrei Ivanov, Yuriy Rozhdestvensky, and Evgeniy Perlin

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(5), B47-B54 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Rotational cavity optomechanics

M. Bhattacharya

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(5), B55-B60 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Compact high-flux cold cesium beam source based on a modified two-dimensional magneto-optical trap

Jiancheng Fang, Lu Qi, Yuchi Zhang, Tongyu Wang, Hairong Li, Zhaohui Hu, and Wei Quan

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(5), B61-B66 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser cooling without spontaneous emission using the bichromatic force

Christopher Corder, Brian Arnold, Xiang Hua, and Harold Metcalf

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(5), B75-B83 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Blue-detuned optical ring trap for Bose-Einstein condensates based on conical refraction

A. Turpin, J. Polo, Yu. V. Loiko, J. Küber, F. Schmaltz, T. K. Kalkandjiev, V. Ahufinger, G. Birkl, and J. Mompart

Opt. Express 23(2), 1638-1650 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Ytterbium-doped glass-ceramics for optical refrigeration

Elton Soares de Lima Filho, Kummara Venkata Krishnaiah, Yannick Ledemi, Ye-Jin Yu, Younes Messaddeq, Galina Nemova, and Raman Kashyap

Opt. Express 23(4), 4630-4640 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

High efficiency demagnetization cooling by suppression of light-assisted collisions

Jahn Rührig, Tobias Bäuerle, Axel Griesmaier, and Tilman Pfau

Opt. Express 23(5), 5596-5606 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical side-band cooling of a low frequency optomechanical system

H. J. Eerkens, F. M. Buters, M. J. Weaver, B. Pepper, G. Welker, K. Heeck, P. Sonin, S. de Man, and D. Bouwmeester

Opt. Express 23(6), 8014-8020 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Multi-wavelength holography with a single spatial light modulator for ultracold atom experiments

David Bowman, Philip Ireland, Graham D. Bruce, and Donatella Cassettari

Opt. Express 23(7), 8365-8372 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Step-by-step guide to the realization of advanced optical tweezers

Giuseppe Pesce, Giorgio Volpe, Onofrio M. Maragó, Philip H. Jones, Sylvain Gigan, Antonio Sasso, and Giovanni Volpe

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(5), B84-B98 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Optofluidic tunable manipulation of microparticles by integrating graded-index fiber taper with a microcavity

Yuan Gong, Chenlin Zhang, Qun-Feng Liu, Yu Wu, Huijuan Wu, Yunjiang Rao, and Gang-Ding Peng

Opt. Express 23(3), 3762-3769 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Effect of the object 3D shape on the viscoelastic testing in optical tweezers

Lingyao Yu and Yunlong Sheng

Opt. Express 23(5), 6020-6028 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical transport, lifting and trapping of micro-particles by planar waveguides

Øystein Ivar Helle, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia, and Olav Gaute Hellesø

Opt. Express 23(5), 6601-6612 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Generation of microswimmers from passive Brownian particles in a spherically aberrated optical trap

Argha Mondal, Basudev Roy, and Ayan Banerjee

Opt. Express 23(6), 8021-8028 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Devil’s lens optical tweezers

Jixiong Pu and P. H. Jones

Opt. Express 23(7), 8190-8199 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Dark-hollow optical beams with a controllable shape for optical trapping in air

A.P. Porfirev and R.V. Skidanov

Opt. Express 23(7), 8373-8382 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Optical trapping of silver nanoplatelets

E. Messina, M. G. Donato, M. Zimbone, R. Saija, M. A. Iatì, L. Calcagno, M. E. Fragalà, G. Compagnini, C. D’Andrea, A. Foti, P. G. Gucciardi, and O. M. Maragò

Opt. Express 23(7), 8720-8730 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Simultaneous measurements of electrophoretic and dielectrophoretic forces using optical tweezers

Giuseppe Pesce, Giulia Rusciano, Gianluigi Zito, and Antonio Sasso

Opt. Express 23(7), 9363-9368 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF