Drew Wilson
March 4th, 2011, 01:16 AM
"A recently submitted paper in arXiv claims that by using Bessel beams it is theoretically possible to pull particles towards the light source, opening up new avenues for optical micromanipulation (the direction of the force is size dependent, so it could be used for particle sorting). There is also a simpler article translated in English (original article in Greek)."
More... (http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/03/1630259/Tractor-Beams-Are-Getting-Closer-Sort-of)
Someone needs to start some sort of meme... call it, "Star Trek was right" or something.
More... (http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/03/1630259/Tractor-Beams-Are-Getting-Closer-Sort-of)
Someone needs to start some sort of meme... call it, "Star Trek was right" or something.