High Resolution Optical Microscopes

Optical Trapping

Optical Tweezers An Introduction
From Block Labs, Stanford University

Optical Trapping Review
Neuman and Block, S. Review of Scientific Instruments (2004). From Block Labs, Stanford University

Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy

High Resolution Optical Microscopy
From Nano-Optics group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Near-Field and Nonlinear Optical Microscopy
Sunney Xie's group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy (NSOM)
National Institute of Standards NIST

Awschalom Group, Department of Physics at U.C. Santa Barbara
See Techniques section for a great introduction to NSOM