A brief overview of the optical tweezer.

Short video about optical tweezers with collaborators Marcus Lai and Suraj Kumar.

References:

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[3] Ashkin's lab book shared in 2018 Physics Nobel lecture, Available at:    • Arthur Ashkin: Nobel Lecture in Physi...  

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[5] M. O. Brown,* T. Thiele,* C. Kiehl, T.-W. Hsu, and C. A. Regal, "Gray-Molasses Optical-Tweezer Loading: Controlling Collisions
for Scaling Atom-Array Assembly", PHYSICAL REVIEW X 9, 011057 (2019)