Darwin Palima

TL;DR: This work fabricate and use two photon polymerization microstructures capable of being optically manipulated into any arbitrary orientation, and therefore has freestanding waveguides, which can be positioned anywhere in the sample at any orientation using optical traps.

TL;DR: A new type of light robot that is capable of loading and unloading cargo using photothermally induced convection currents within the body of the tool and presents a mode of material transport that may have a significant impact on targeted drug delivery and nanofluidics injection.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent works on the actuation of synthetic microstructures using optical trapping and optical manipulation is presented, which can involve either direct manipulation of nanostructures or structure-mediated approaches where the nanostructure form part of larger structures that are suitable for interfacing with diffraction-limited optical fields.

TL;DR: A model platform for constructing versatile microenvironments by fabricating morphologically complex microstructures by two-photon polymerization and then assembling these archetypal building blocks into various configurations using multiple, real-time configurable counterpropagating-beam (CB) traps is demonstrated.

TL;DR: This work proposes to derive a CGH, which includes holographic information to project a corrective beam that destructively interferes with the zero-order beam in light patterns projected via phase-only computer-generated holograms.