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Via #OPG_Optica: Second-harmonic generation from an optically levitated KTP nanocrystal in vacuum https://bit.ly/4yNeZ3E #VacuumOpticalLevitation #OpticalTweezers💡⚛️
October 29, 2026 at 1:05 PM
photonicsmdpi.bsky.social
📖 Improving the Performances of Optical Tweezers by Using Simple Binary Diffractive Optics
✍ By Kamel Aït-Ameur and Abdelkrim Hasnaoui
👉 mdpi.com/2304-6732/11/8/744
#Photonics #Optics #OpticalTweezers #ImprovedLongitudinalStability #HighOrderLaguerreGaussModes #LaserBeamShaping
October 12, 2026 at 12:24 PM
aasforum.bsky.social
Steven Chu on optical tweezers: Art Ashkin trapped E. coli with light in the mid-1980s; Chu's bet was to grab a single biomolecule via a polystyrene sphere — two years later it worked.

Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4

#AASF #StevenChu #OpticalTweezers
September 20, 2026 at 9:01 PM
informaq.bsky.social
Researchers combined twelve trapped rubidium atoms with a compact 85μm optical microcavity to achieve 5x enhanced vacuum Rabi splitting. Non-destructive readout of five coupled atoms demonstrates scalable control for future quantum network nodes.

#CavityQED #OpticalTweezers #QuantumControl
Rubidium Atom Arrays Integrated with Microcavity for Enhanced Quantum Control
quantumzeitgeist.com
August 21, 2026 at 4:48 PM
informaq.bsky.social
Proposes ac-dc electric field shielding protocol achieving >99% fidelity for single polar molecule loading in optical tweezers by suppressing collisional losses and enabling controlled escape from molecular ensembles.

#QuantumControl #OpticalTweezers #Research
Shielding-Enhanced Single Polar Molecule Loading in Optical Tweezers
iq.fp2.dev
August 21, 2026 at 2:38 AM
opticaltrapping.bsky.social
#HelloWorld Bluesky account is set up, ready for new activities in 2025. Follow this account on novel optical trapping and manipulation techniques to biological problems. 🧪⚛️💡@optica.bsky.social

#opticaltrapping #opticaltweezers #photonics #optics
Description of Technical Group of Optical Trapping and Manipulation in Molecular and Cellular Biology
December 13, 2024 at 10:17 AM
ibfg.bsky.social
👉 Don’t miss this opportunity to explore how this unique instrument works. The first Optical Tweezers Course is being concluded with this course.

#Opticaltweezers #CellBiology #Research #Biophysics #Innovation
October 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
ibfg.bsky.social
✨Optical Tweezers Course✨

🗓️ 20 - 22 Oct. 2025
📍IBFG Auditorium, Salamanca

¡Here is the program!📋

#science #opticaltweezers #biology #ibfg #research

@jcyl.bsky.social
@csic.es @csiccyl.bsky.social @usaloficial.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
alirezamashaghi.bsky.social
We recently reported the first single molecule protein folding analysis using optical tweezers inside cytosol! This allows for including the full complexity of cellular chaperone network & beyond.

#SingleMolecule #Biophysics #Protein #Chaperone #OpticalTweezers #ChemSky

phys.org/news/2023-08...
Biological origami at molecular level: Cytosolic interactome protects against protein unfolding
Human cells are protecting their proteins from unfolding and aggregating. That's what biophysicist Alireza Mashaghi and his team discovered after seven years of in-depth research into the folding mech...
phys.org
November 24, 2024 at 8:54 AM
genesdev.bsky.social
🆕 ADVANCE ONLINE 🆕

RESEARCH PAPER: The eukaryotic homology search complex distorts donor DNA structure to probe for homology
By Woodhouse et al., Michelle Wang, and Brooks Crickard
➡️ https://ow.ly/QSeK50YVNaJ

@brookscrickard1.bsky.social Cornell University
#DNArepair #homology #opticaltweezers
May 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
opg.optica.org
An Editors' Pick via #OPG_OPTCON: Reflective form-birefringent grating with high efficiency https://opg.optica.org/optcon/fulltext.cfm?uri=optcon-5-2-740 #DiffractionEfficiency #OpticalTweezers @unistuttgart.bsky.social💡⚛️
February 26, 2026 at 1:00 PM
madcitylabs.bsky.social
What's on your schedule for #SPIEOpticsPhotonics? Lots of great talks but we're happy to be a sponsor of the Optical Trapping & Optical Manipulation (OTOM) XXII conference!
Booth 617 or catch us in the talks! #opticaltweezers #opticaltraps
August 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
schaefferlab.bsky.social
Exciting news! 🚀
Our latest work has been selected as the cover article in Nano Letters! 🎉

“Attonewton Force Resolution Measurements with Silicon Nanospheres at the Thermal Noise Limit in Ambient-Temperature Liquids”

#NanoLetters #CoverArticle #OpticalTweezers #ForceMeasurement #ZMBP
September 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
naturvetenskap.bsky.social
Hanterandet av optiska pincetter är tidsödande och kräver skickliga operatörer. Fram tills nu. Forskare vid Göteborgs universitet har utvecklat en AI som fångar upp partiklar, utför mätningar och laddar in nya prover, allt utan mänsklig inblandning. #physics #opticaltweezers
tinyurl.com/2sfb4dyd
Illustration med apparater och datorskärmar som visar hur AI är konfigurerad.
June 22, 2026 at 10:55 AM
paulguinnessy.bsky.social
Physicists have used lasers as #opticaltweezers to position molecules so precisely that the molecules can be used as #qubits to process #quantuminformation www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Quantum-computing approach uses single molecules as qubits for first time
Platforms based on molecules manipulated using ‘optical tweezers’ might be able to perform complex physics calculations. Platforms based on molecules manipulated using ‘optical tweezers’ might...
www.nature.com
December 10, 2023 at 7:20 PM
arielkaplan.bsky.social
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
technion.bsky.social

#Transcription #TranscriptionFactors #IDPs #SingleMolecule #Biophysics
#IDRs #IntrinsicallyDisordered #OpticalTweezers #FacilitatedDiffusion
#DNAunzipping
Intrinsically disordered regions facilitate Msn2 target search to drive promoter selectivity
Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression by binding specific DNA motifs, yet only a fraction of putative sites is occupied in vivo. Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) have emerged as ...
www.biorxiv.org
May 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
weisslab.bsky.social
How long does it take Caulobacter to adhere?
Introducing the Trapezoid 🚨

Guillaume & Sukanya (@brunlabcaulo.bsky.social), et al. capture real-time adhesion with optical tweezers.

Now online doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6c03697
@pubs.acs.org

#BacterialAdhesion #Biofouling #Caulobacter
#OpticalTweezers
June 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
pekarekl.bsky.social
Babe, are you ok? You barely touched your single-molecule gingerbread tweezers... It's the most nerdy-full time of the year... #singlemolecule #opticaltweezers #RNA #biophysics
Nerdy shaped gingerbreads
November 27, 2024 at 5:44 PM
informaq.bsky.social
Nanofiber Quantum Technologies, Inc. patent filing describes a counter-propagating optical tweezer system enabling selective transport and precise manipulation of atoms evanescently coupled to nanofiber regions for quantum information processing.

#OpticalTweezers #AtomTrapping #Patent
Counter-Propagating Optical Tweezers with Nanofiber Coupling for Quantum Atom Control
patents.google.com
July 10, 2026 at 8:49 AM
informaq.bsky.social
U. Warsaw researchers show trap-induced resonances in optically tweezed polar molecules boost dipolar interactions 50x via coupled-channel modelling, enabling quantum gates with ~1s coherence and dual use for electric field sensing.

#PolarMolecules #OpticalTweezers #News
Polar Molecules in Optical Tweezers Unlock Trap-Induced Resonances for Quantum Gates
iq.fp2.dev
April 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
informaq.bsky.social
Princeton researchers used 37 CaF molecules in optical tweezer arrays to simulate XXZ/XYZ spin models via Floquet Hamiltonian engineering, observing magnon bound states, quantum walks, and coherent dynamics with decoherence times exceeding 100s.

#QuantumSimulation #OpticalTweezers #News
Polar Molecules in Optical Tweezers Demonstrate Coherent Many-Body Quantum Spin Dynamics
iq.fp2.dev
March 21, 2026 at 10:15 AM
leeasplund.bsky.social
Arthur Ashkin, Nobel laureate, revolutionized science with optical tweezers—using lasers to manipulate tiny particles! A groundbreaking innovation in physics. #FamousScientists #NobelPrize #OpticalTweezers #Physics
Arthur Ashkin, shown in a lab setting, revolutionized science with optical tweezers—using lasers to manipulate tiny particles. "#FamousScientists" appears above with logos in the corners.
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
somssich.bsky.social
Happy to announce that I am the first on this app to use the hashtags
#OpticalTweezers and #LatticeLightSheet.
👍
October 7, 2023 at 7:08 AM
somssich.bsky.social
Happy to announce that I am the first user to use the hashtag OpticalTweezers on this app. 🎉️ 😁️ 🔬️

#Microscopy #PlantScience
August 14, 2023 at 8:30 AM
somssich.bsky.social
One of the two #gravitropism #preprints has now been published in Science
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh9978

This preprint focusses on #microscopy based techniques to resolve the function of the LAZY proteins.
It has the coolest use of #OpticalTweezers I have so far seen in plants!
August 14, 2023 at 8:26 AM