Large-scale optical pulling of cancer cells with counter-propagating beams in the near-infrared-II window
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ren, Yu-Xuan; Yip, Gwinky G. K.; Zhou, Yi; Tsia, Kevin K.; Wong, Kenneth K.Y.
- Source
- 2021 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2021 Asia. :1-3 Oct, 2021
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Optical polarization
Biomedical optical imaging
Asia
Nanobioscience
Biological cells
Photonics
Cancer
- Language
We demonstrate that the near-infrared light can pull biological cells with weak polarizability owing to the biophotonic nanojet. Counter-propagating beams can exert backaction forces with opposite direction on the biological cells in large-scale.