UCL Optical Tweezers Group

Our paper on improving trap force calculations for red blood cells is published as R. Tognato et al, Biomedical Optics Express 14(7) 3748-3762 (2023)

Preprint on bioRxiv: R. Tognato et al, 'Modelling red blood cell optical trapping by machine learning improved geometrical optics calculations'

The Roadmap for Optical Tweezers is published online in J Phys Photonics

Phil will be giving a talk as part of the 2023 Darwin Lectures series at Darwin College, Cambridge on 17 Feb 23. This year's theme is Isolation

Prof Donna Strickland (2018 Physics Nobel Laureate) will be visiting UCL to give a talk on Generating High-intensity, Ultra-Short Optical Pulses, 01 Feb 23

PhD project on Optical trapping and spectroscopy of 2D nanomaterials, jointly supervised with Prof Chris Howard available.  See this page for how to apply, deadline is 25 Jan.

Feature Issue of Biomedical Optics Express in conjunction with the Optica Optical Manipulation and Its Applications (OMA) Meeting announced.  Submissions open 01 Apr 23

Our paper Ray optics model for optical trapping of biconcave red blood cells has been published as R Tognato & P H Jones, Micromachines 14 83 (2023)

Our paper Optical tweezers and their applications, J Quant Spectr Rad Transf 218 131-150 (2018) reaches 100 citations (Scopus)

Introduction to Optical Tweezers tutorial lecture for students on the Optical Biology CDT, 10:00 Tue 13 Dec

Welcome to Bingxin Guo, who has joined the group for a PhD

Welcome to Shane Wilson, who has joined the group for his Physics MSci project

Optical trapping and manipulation of nanostructures Nat. Nanotech. 8 807-819 (2013) reaches 700 citations (Scopus)

Welcome to Nina O'Toole, who has joined the group for a PhD, working on a collaborative project with Yuval Elani

Welcome back to Shiyi Chen, who after completing his MSci project with us, has re-joined us for a PhD

Phil will be giving the HOPES webinar for the UK & Ireland Section of the IEEE on 'Biological Applications of Optical Tweezers', Mon 25 Apr 22

Congratulations to Riccardo Tognato for successfully defending his thesis

Our paper 'Assessment of red blood cell deformability in type 2 diabetes mellitus and diabetic retinopathy by dual optical tweezers stretching technique', Scientific Reports 6 15873 (2016) reaches 100 citations (Scopus)

Paper H. Chen et al, 'Influence of slow light effect on trapping force in optical tweezers', Optics Letters 47 710-713 (2022) is published

Congratulations to Riccardo Tognato for submitting his thesis

A warm welcome to David Bronte Ciriza, who is visiting the group as part of the MSC-ITN ActiveMatter.

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