Optical Binding and Trapping

MIT Center for Electromagnetic Theory and Applications

Who We Are

Prof. J. A. Kong
Dr. T. M. Grzegorczyk
Brandon A. Kemp
William F. Herrington
Kei Suwa
Michelle Zimmermann
Zhen Li


Particles line up with high
intensities of total field.
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  1. Tomasz M. Grzegorczyk and Jin Au Kong,
    "Analytical expression of the force due to multiple TM plane wave incidences on an infinite lossless dielectric circular cylinder of arbitrary size", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, vol. 24, page(s) 644-652, March, 2007.
  2. B.A. Kemp, T.M. Grzegorczyk, and J.A. Kong,
    Optical momentum transfer to absorbing Mie particles, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 97, no. 133902, 29 September, 2006.
  3. T.M. Grzegorczyk, B.A. Kemp, and J.A. Kong,
    Passive guiding and sorting of small particles with optical binding forces, Opt. Lett. vol. 31, no. 22, pp. 3378-3380, 15 Nov. 2006.
  4. T.M. Grzegorczyk, B.A. Kemp, and J.A. Kong,
    Trapping and binding of an arbitrary number of cylindrical particles in an in-plane electromagnetic field, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, vol. 23, no. 9, page(s) 2324-2330, September, 2006.
  5. T.M. Grzegorczyk, B.A. Kemp, and J.A. Kong,
    Stable optical trapping based on optical binding forces, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 96, no. 113903, 24 March, 2006.
About Us

Our group, the Center for Electromagnetic Theory and Applications (CETA) at MIT, led by Prof. J. A. Kong, has an extensive background in theoretical and numerical electromagnetics, remote sensing, propagation of electromagnetic waves in complex media, and electromagnetic modeling in general. Recently, our activities have been concentrated on modeling optical tweezers and other known optical trapping systems for spherical and cylindrical dielectric particles. Although the experimental part of this work is being actively developed in various groups, the theoretical modeling of these systems still seems at its infancy.

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