Experiments now show that the force exerted by light can be used to pull a waveguide towards a microdisk resonator, illustrating how optical forces could be used for positioning and control in integrated microphotonics.
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Povinelli, M. Under pressure. Nature Photon 1, 370–371 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.104
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