Optical Manipulations

• Yuebing Zheng, University of Texas at Austin
  Optical tweezers, optical manipulation, nanobiophotonics, architected nanomaterials
• Olav Gaute Hellesø, University of Tromsø (Norway)
  Optical waveguides for trapping and sensing
• Euan McLeod, University of Arizona
  Nanomanufacturing/Imaging/Sensing using optical tweezers
• Síle Nic Chormaic, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate Univ.
  Optical trapping + optical nanofiber/whispering gallery mode resonance/cold atoms
• Lambertus Hesselink, Standford University
  Optical trapping and manipulation in near field
• Warwick Bowen, University of Queensland
  Optomechanics/superfluids/Biosensing/Silicon nanomechanics/opto-electromechanics
• Justus Ndukaife, Vanderbilt University
  Metasurfaces/optical tweezers/electrothermoplasmonic tweezers/opto-thermo-electrohydrodynamic tweezersOptical trapping and manipulation in near field
• Keiji Sssaki, Hokkaido University
  Optical/plasmonic trapping/manipulation of nanoparticles and molecules
• Romain Quidant, ETH Zurich
  Levitation optomechanics/Bionanophotonics/Microscale heat control

Interested nanophotonics groups

Europe, ETH

• Romain Quidant, Nanophotonic Systems Laboratory
  Interested research: levitation optomechanics, including
  (1) Macro cavity/Nano cavity
  (2) Sensing with levitated system (force sensing on a chip) 2019_NL_Force Sensing
  (3) Paul trap based levitation 2020_NL_Paul Optical Trap
  (4) Optomechanical metasurfaces (reconfigurable planar optics) 2019_NP_Tunable Planar Metalens
  
• Lukas Novotny, Photonics Laboratory
  Interested research: Nano-Optics, including
  (1) Levitodynamics 2021-Nature-Quantum Control, 2020_PRL_Motional Sideband Asymmetry, 2019_PRL_Cold Damping to uK (2) On-chip Photonics with Van Der Waals Heterostructures 2020_NN_On-chip vdW photodetector

Europe, Imperial College London