The technology discussed in this book allows for applications in biosensing and structural health monitoring, as well as, targeted drug delivery and in vivo (within a living organism) molecular imaging - all important to improving bioengineering and the world of medicine. Andrews, a leader in the field of nanotechnology, has assembled key researchers and scientists to create the definitive and cutting-edge treatise on the subject of structured light. This contributed volume presents the technology and phenomena of what makes these bioengineering and optoelectrical advances possible structured light and the non-contact optical manipulation of matter. It surges past mature technology and applications such as focused laser trapping and optical tweezers to optical vortices and holographic optical trapping. Opportunities abound through these optical forces and their complex fields, this book will lead the reader through all of the information to the core of the research.

David L. Andrews is Professor of Chemistry at the University of East Anglia, UK. His research focuses in the areas of nanophotonics and quantum electrodynamics.

Introduction to Phase-Structured Electromagnetic Waves
Generation of Bessel, Laguerre-Gaussian, and Mathieu Beams
Quantum Optics of Structured Light
Optical Angular Momentum and Optical Vortices
Singular Optics and Phase Properties
Phase-Structured Light and Nonlinear Optics
Optical Forces between Nanoparticles
Optical Vortices and the Dynamics of Particle Rotation
Rotating Optical Tweezers
Near-Field Trapping
Holographic Optical Trapping
Rheological and Viscometric Measurements
Optically Driven Microfluidics
Liquid Crystal Interactions
Optical Binding and Optical Matter
Ultrasensitive Force Measurement in Physics and Biology
The Control of Bose-Einstein Condensates
Optical Angular Momentum in Quantum Information and Computation