Figure 12.1 — Self-induced back action optical trap

Fig. 12.1 — Self-induced back action optical trap
Figure 12.1 — Self-induced back action optical trap. Artist’s depiction of a SIBA optical trap: a feedback optical trap holds a dielectric nanoparticle in place in a bow-tie nanoaperture fabricated on the tip of a tapered metallised optical fibre.
Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Berthelot et al., Nature Nanotech. 9, 295–9, copyright 2014.