Making light work with optical tweezers
- 1 December 1992
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 360 (6403), 493-495
- https://doi.org/10.1038/360493a0
Abstract
Microscopic objects, including biological material, can be remotely manipulated with tightly focused beams of infrared laser light. The use of optical traps, or 'optical tweezers', holds great promise for noninvasive micromanipulation and mechanical measurement in cell biology. Optical tweezers are the 'tractor beams' of today's technology.Keywords
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