Optical Tweezers: From critical fluctuations to nanoscopic force measurement
Seminar at Sistemas Complejos y Física Estadística
UNAM – Universidad National de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
18 February 2019
I will first give a brief overview of optical trapping and optical manipulation — the invention that has earned Arthur Ashkin the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. Then, I will focus on some recent applications where we have used optical tweezers to characterise critical Casimir forces and to manipulate active matter. Finally, I will present a new approach to the calibration of optical forces that we have recently developed in collaboration with UNAM.