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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - SPIE Fellow
  • 2008 - OSA Fellows For contributions to the field of optical micromanipulation and biophotonics, in particular using non zero order light fields.
  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Kishan Dholakia is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, their work delves into several subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Biophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The topics frequently addressed in their research cover a range of advanced techniques and technologies. These include:

  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
  • Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
  • Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
  • Digital Holography and Microscopy
  • Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
  • Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging

Dholakia has contributed to a variety of recent papers, indicative of an active research agenda. Some notable publications include:

  • "Metasurfaces for biomedical applications: imaging and sensing from a nanophotonics perspective," 2020, Nanophotonics
  • "Roadmap for optical tweezers," 2023, Journal of Physics Photonics
  • "Comparing acoustic and optical forces for biomedical research," 2020, Nature Reviews Physics
  • "Deep Learning Enabled Laser Speckle Wavemeter with a High Dynamic Range," 2020, Laser & Photonics Review
  • "Exploring the Limit of Multiplexed Near-Field Optical Trapping," 2021, ACS Photonics

Frequent collaboration features several coauthors with whom Dholakia has published extensively. Key collaborators include:

  • Graham D. Bruce
  • Kylie R. Dunning
  • Philip Wijesinghe
  • Darren J. X. Chow
  • Mingzhou Chen

Dholakia's publications are present in various academic venues, often appearing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACS Photonics
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Physics Photonics

Awards conferred upon Dholakia include recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2007), OSA Fellow (2008) specifically for contributions to optical micromanipulation and biophotonics, and designation as a SPIE Fellow since 2009.

Best Publications

  • Microfluidic sorting in an optical lattice

    M. P. MacDonald;G. C. Spalding;G. C. Spalding;K. Dholakia

  • Bessel beams: Diffraction in a new light

    David Mcgloin;Kishan Dholakia

  • Mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light: an optical spanner.

    N. B. Simpson;K. Dholakia;L. Allen;M. J. Padgett

  • Simultaneous micromanipulation in multiple planes using a self-reconstructing light beam

    V. Garcés-Chávez;D. McGloin;H. Melville;W. Sibbett

  • Optically mediated particle clearing using Airy wavepackets

    Jörg Baumgartl;Michael Mazilu;Kishan Dholakia

  • The role of LiO2 solubility in O2 reduction in aprotic solvents and its consequences for Li-O2 batteries.

    Lee Johnson;Chunmei Li;Zheng Liu;Yuhui Chen

  • Controlled rotation of optically trapped microscopic particles.

    Lynn Paterson;Michael P MacDonald;J. Arlt;W. Sibbett

  • Shaping the future of manipulation

    K Dholakia;T Čižmár

  • Generation of high-order Bessel beams by use of an axicon

    Jochen Arlt;K Dholakia

  • Light-sheet microscopy using an Airy beam

    Tom Vettenburg;Heather Isla Campbell Dalgarno;Jonathan Nylk;Clara Coll-Lladó

  • Optical micromanipulation using a Bessel light beam

    Jochen Arlt;V Garces-Chavez;W Sibbett;K Dholakia

  • Membrane disruption by optically controlled microbubble cavitation.

    P Prentice;A. Cuschieri;K Dholakia;M Prausnitz

  • Creation and Manipulation of Three-Dimensional Optically Trapped Structures

    Michael P. MacDonald;Lynn Paterson;K. Volke-Sepulveda;J. Arlt

  • Exploiting multimode waveguides for pure fibre-based imaging

    Tomáš Čižmár;Kishan Dholakia

  • Optical manipulation of nanoparticles: a review

    Maria Dienerowitz;Michael Mazilu;Kishan Dholakia

  • Colloquium: Gripped by light: Optical binding

    Kishan Dholakia;Pavel Zemánek

  • Orbital angular momentum of a high-order Bessel light beam

    K Volke-Sepulveda;V Garcés-Chávez;S Chávez-Cerda;J Arlt

  • In situ wavefront correction and its application to micromanipulation

    Tomáš Ccaron;i zcaron;már;Michael Mazilu

  • Observation of the transfer of the local angular momentum density of a multiringed light beam to an optically trapped particle.

    V. Garcés-Chávez;D. McGloin;M. J. Padgett;W. Dultz

  • Second-harmonic generation and the orbital angular momentum of light

    K. Dholakia;N. B. Simpson;M. J. Padgett;L. Allen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ewan M. Wright
Ewan M. Wright University of Arizona
Thomas F. Krauss
Thomas F. Krauss University of York
Miles J. Padgett
Miles J. Padgett University of Glasgow
Peter E. Andersen
Peter E. Andersen Technical University of Denmark
Nikolay I. Zheludev
Nikolay I. Zheludev University of Southampton
Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Demetrios N. Christodoulides University of Southern California
Časlav Brukner
Časlav Brukner Austrian Academy of Sciences
Vlatko Vedral
Vlatko Vedral University of Oxford
Min Gu
Min Gu University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
Daniel Jaque
Daniel Jaque Autonomous University of Madrid

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