Colloquium: Gripped by light: Optical binding
Colloquium: Gripped by light: Optical binding
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DOI：
10.1103/revmodphys.82.1767
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发表时间：
2010-06-03
影响因子：
44.1
通讯作者：
Zemanek, Pavel
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作者：
Dholakia, Kishan;Zemanek, Pavel
在过去的40年里，从原子尺度到微观尺度，光-物质相互作用一直是重大进展的核心。以光学陷阱为代表的光限制对所有自然科学都产生了重大影响。然而，这个领域中一个正在稳步融合但没有得到太多认可的新兴而强大的话题是光学结合：探索组装物体之间的光学中介相互作用的重要性，这种相互作用可能会产生吸引力和排斥力，并极大地影响它们的组装和组织方式。这为生物和胶体科学模板的胶体自组装、结晶和组织提供了路线。在这次座谈会中，我们回顾了这一新兴领域，回顾了该领域的开创性实验以及旨在描述这一行为的各种理论方法。回顾了该领域的最新实验研究，理论方法现在开始收敛以描述所见的结合行为。探讨了光学结合和非线性之间的最新联系以及未来的主题和挑战。
The light-matter interaction has been at the heart of major advances from the atomic scale right to the microscopic scale over the past four decades. Confinement by light, embodied by the area of optical trapping, has had a major influence across all of the natural sciences. However, an emergent and powerful topic within this field that has steadily merged but not gained much recognition is optical binding: the importance of exploring the optically mediated interaction between assembled objects that can cause attractive and repulsive forces and dramatically influence the way they assemble and organize themselves. This offers routes for colloidal self-assembly, crystallization, and organization of templates for biological and colloidal sciences. In this Colloquium, this emergent area is reviewed looking at the pioneering experiments in the field and the various theoretical approaches that aim to describe this behavior. The latest experimental studies in the field are reviewed and theoretical approaches are now beginning to converge to describe the binding behavior seen. Recent links between optical binding and nonlinearity are explored as well as future themes and challenges.