Holographic optical tweezers
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The craze for miniaturization has swept o’er most every nation, but should a hand e’er so slightly tremble no micro-machine can it assemble: and so all those really small bits leave the technicians in fits and the hope for a lab on a chip might seem frightfully flip. Yet, while optical forces are weak they provide the control that we seek. When light’s holographically defined, HOT opportunities can be mined! and so this review contains quite a rich stew, as we hope that you will soon find. So dinnae fear phase modulation nor the details of plane conjugation: it’s simple, you’ll see, we’ll guide you for free, to make optical landscapes extended, so your science can truly be splendid. Holographic optical tweezers 2
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