optical tweezers
Americannoun
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These "optical tweezers" keep drifting aerosols suspended long enough to study them.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 24, 2025
It traps neutral atoms using tightly focused laser beams, called optical tweezers, and encodes qubits in the electronic states of the atoms or in the spins of atoms’ nuclei.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 13, 2023
Dr. Ashkin became the oldest Nobel laureate in history when he earned the physics prize in 2018, at age 96, for inventing optical tweezers more than three decades earlier.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2020
Dr Ashkin developed a laser technique described as optical tweezers, which is used to study biological systems.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2018
Among other things, optical tweezers can keep a tiny organism swimming in place while scientists study its paddling flagella under a microscope.
From Time Magazine Archive
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