Optical Nanomanipulation

David L. Andrews is a Professor at the University of East Anglia in the UK and leads research on fundamental molecular photonics, energy harvesting and transport, optomechanical forces, quantum and nonlinear optics. He has over 350 research papers and fifteen books to his name. The current focus of his research group is on quantum aspects of optical transmission, optical vortices and chirality, frequency conversion, optical nanomanipulation and switching, optically nonlinear mechanisms in fluorescence, and energy transfer processes. Professor Andrews is a Fellow of the SPIE, the Optical Society of America, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Institute of Physics. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of SPIE. David S. Bradshaw is an honorary research associate at the University of East Anglia in the UK. He graduated twice from the same university, first receiving a Master's degree in chemical physics (which included a year at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada) and then a PhD in theoretical chemical physics. Overall, David has co-written 80 research papers, including book chapters, all based on molecular quantum electrodynamics. He has also created a website explaining the key physics in this theory. His long running interests include optical trapping, resonance energy transfer, optical binding and nonlinear optics. David is a Member of the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Front matter
Nanomanipulation: why optical methods are best
Key properties of the radiation
Optically induced mechanical forces
Laser cooling and trapping of atoms
Dielectric and metal nanoparticles: Rayleigh regime
Larger nanoparticles: Lorenz–Mie regime and beyond
Optical trapping arrays
Orbital angular momentum, optical vortices and torques
Structured light: particle steering, traction and optical lift
Optofluidics: lab-on-a-chip mixing and actuating flow
Vortex plasmons and light-induced ring currents
Optical binding
Past, present and future
Bibliography