Editor David McGLoin
Optical Levitation by Radiation Pressure (1971)
A. Ashkin, J. M. Dziedzic
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1653919
Jun 24, 2018 - The follow up paper to the 1970 Physical Review Letters paper demonstrated the optical levitation of glass beads in air - levitation is optical trapping with a diverging laser beam that holds the particle against gravity. It is a 2D trap in the sense that changing the power in the ...
Acceleration and Trapping of Particles by Radiation Pressure (1970)
A. Ashkin
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.24.156
Jun 24, 2018 - Arthur Ashkin's work work on the radiation pressure of light, demonstrating the ability of light pressure to push microscopic particles and trap using a counter-propagating beam trap. Ashkin's insight was that the use of a laser on transparent dielectric particles eliminated any th...
A Preliminary Communication on the Pressure of Heat and Light Radiation (1901)
E. F. Nichols, G. F. Hull
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevseriesi.13.307
Jun 07, 2018 - Nichols and Hull carried out the first experimental demonstration (in parallel to Lebedev, Ann. der Physik, 6, 433 (1901)) of optical radiation pressure in this work. This confirmed theoretical predictions by Maxwell and others.