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  1. Kuang‑Ta Chao (Ed.)
    This is an Editor-in-Chief invited "View and Perspective", which gives a commentary on a recent publication in optical trapping and provides some perspectives of the emerging field of light force. 
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    Free, publicly-accessible full text available January 1, 2026
  2. We report the experimental realization of optical trapping and controlled manipulations of single particles of arbitrary properties, e.g., nano- to micrometer in size, transparent spheres to strongly light absorbing nonspherical particles, in low-pressure rf plasmas. First, we show optical trapping and transport of single particles in an unmagnetized rf plasma. Then, we show similar observations in a weakly magnetized rf plasma. This is the first demonstration of actively transporting (pushing and pulling) light-absorbing, nonspherical single particles in plasmas. The result suggests that optically trapped, actively controlled, single plasma dust particles (not limited to those externally sampled spheres) could be an in situ micro-probe for dusty plasma and magnetized dusty plasma diagnostics. 
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