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ArticleScience advances2025

Optical tweezers with light aligned along the particle's trajectory enable playing tennis with light rackets.

Ali Droby, Mohammad Attrash, Hani Barhum, Nitzan Shani, Yael Roichman, Tal Carmon

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Ali DrobySchool of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.ORCID 0009-0003-1481-5788
Mohammad AttrashSchool of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-2500-0811
Hani BarhumSchool of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-0214-0288
Nitzan ShaniSchool of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.
Yael RoichmanRaymond & Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-1927-4506
Tal CarmonSchool of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-4727-6368

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Abstract

Optical tweezers can rapidly manipulate dielectric objects for applications ranging from microcentrifuges to controlling droplets and particles in a "lab-in-air" configuration. Here, we uniquely combine light propagation that is predominantly parallel to the particle's orbital track-rather than primarily perpendicular as in conventional vortices-with operation in air. We measure a 7-micrometer sphere circulating at 20,400 rounds per minute [340 hertz (Hz)] along 120-micrometer circumference tracks, achieving accelerations up to 10 times that of gravity (98 square meters per second). Our trap's optical orbital angular momentum of ℓ = 242ℏ per photon, combined with the gaseous environment, enables high circulation frequencies and underdamped operation at a high mechanical quality factor,

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