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optical torque

Description: Mechanical torque exerted by light on particles or objects through transfer of optical angular momentum, studied in photonics and optical manipulation.
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Mechanical Detection and Measurement of the Angular Momentum of Light
1936 · Richard A. Beth · Physical Review · 1,350
Optical alignment and spinning of laser-trapped microscopic particles
1998 · M. E. J. Friese, T. A. Nieminen, et al. · Nature · 1,019
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Optical manipulation from the microscale to the nanoscale: fundamentals, advances and prospects
2017 · Dongliang Gao, Weiqiang Ding, et al. · Light Science & Applications · 641
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Optical tweezers computational toolbox
2007 · Timo A Nieminen, Vincent L Y Loke, et al. · Journal of Optics A Pure and Applied Optics · 405
Optical orbital angular momentum from the curl of polarization
2010 · Xi-Lin Wang, Jing Chen, et al. · Physical Review Letters · 265
Optically driven micromachine elements
2001 · M. E. J. Friese, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, et al. · Applied Physics Letters · 212
Mechanical separation of chiral dipoles by chiral light
2013 · Antoine Canaguier-Durand, James A Hutchison, et al. · New Journal of Physics · 195
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Influence of anthraquinone dyes on optical reorientation of nematic liquid crystals
1992 · I. Jánossy, T. Kósa · Optics Letters · 187
Discriminatory optical force for chiral molecules
2014 · Robert P Cameron, Stephen M Barnett, et al. · New Journal of Physics · 176
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Trapping in a Material World
2016 · Susan E. Skelton Spesyvtseva, Kishan Dholakia · ACS Photonics · 165
Full rotational control of levitated silicon nanorods
2017 · Stefan Kuhn, Alon Kosloff, et al. · Optica · 149
Low-Power Optical Reorientation in Dyed Nematics
1991 · I. Jánossy, A. D. Lloyd · Molecular crystals and liquid crystals · 146
Gold Nanorod Rotary Motors Driven by Resonant Light Scattering
2015 · Lei Shao, Zhong-Jian Yang, et al. · ACS Nano · 137
Effects of light on molecular orientation of liquid crystals
1999 · F Simoni, O Francescangeli · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter · 127
Optical torque controlled by elliptical polarization
1998 · M. E. J. Friese, T. A. Nieminen, et al. · Optics Letters · 120
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1Efficient Computation of Power, Force, and Torque in BEM Scattering Calculations
2014 · M. T. Homer Reid, Steven G. Johnson · 118
Optical torques in suspended Fabry–Perot interferometers
2006 · John A. Sidles, Daniel Sigg · Physics Letters A · 117
Optical Forces and Torques in Nonuniform Beams of Light
2012 · David B. Ruffner, David G. Grier · Physical Review Letters · 113
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Physics of Optical Tweezers
2007 · Timo A. Nieminen, Gregor Knöner, et al. · Methods in cell biology · 111
Optical torque exerted on a homogeneous sphere levitated in the circularly polarized fundamental-mode laser beam
1985 · Soo Chang, Sang Soo Lee · Journal of the Optical Society of America B · 110
Light‐Driven Rotation of Plasmonic Nanomotors
2018 · Lei Shao, Mikael Käll · Advanced Functional Materials · 109
Chiral Light–Chiral Matter Interactions: an Optical Force Perspective
2022 · Cyriaque Genet · ACS Photonics · 108
Computational toolbox for optical tweezers in geometrical optics
2015 · Agnese Callegari, Mite Mijalkov, et al. · Journal of the Optical Society of America B · 107
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Left-handed optical radiation torque
2014 · Davit Hakobyan, Etienne Brasselet · Nature Photonics · 106
Optical reorientation of nematic liquid crystals in the presence of photoisomerization
1998 · I. Jánossy, L. Szabados · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics · 103
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