Optical manipulation of matter by using the mechanical action of light is one of the vibrant subjects of micro and nanoscience. In 2018 a Nobel Prize of physics was awarded to Arthur Ashkin for the ...

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 239, No. 807 (Feb. 4, 1944), pp. 305-365 (61 pages) In Part I is developed the theory of ...