ArticleScience advances2019
Optical pulling at macroscopic distances.
Article in Science advances, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Tunable photon-recoil forces and negative torque at flat-top beam edges.Nature communications · 2025Article
- 3-dimensional plasmonic nanomotors enabled by independent integration of optical pulling and lateral forces.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2025Article
- Ultra-long-range optical pulling with an optical nanofibre.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Morphology-independent general-purpose optical surface tractor beam.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Gradient-induced long-range optical pulling force based on photonic band gap.Light, science & applications · 2024Article
- Creating tunable lateral optical forces through multipolar interplay in single nanowires.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Back-propagation-assisted inverse design of structured light fields for given profiles of optical force.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2023Article
- Stable optical lateral forces from inhomogeneities of the spin angular momentum.Science advances · 2022Article
- Optical Force of Bessel Pincer Light-Sheets Beam on a Dielectric Sphere of Arbitrary Size.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Optical Pulling Using Chiral Metalens as a Photonic Probe.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Coherent oscillations of a levitated birefringent microsphere in vacuum driven by nonconservative rotation-translation coupling.Science advances · 2020Article
- Long-distance optical pulling of nanoparticle in a low index cavity using a single plane wave.Science advances · 2020Article
- Opto-thermoelectric pulling of light-absorbing particles.Light, science & applications · 2020Article
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Abstract
Optical tractor beams, proposed in 2011 and experimentally demonstrated soon after, offer the ability to pull particles against light propagation. It has attracted much research and public interest. Yet, its limited microscopic-scale range severely restricts its applicability. The dilemma is that a long-range Bessel beam, the most accessible beam for optical traction, has a small half-cone angle, θ
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