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Video of Optical Conveyor Belt

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Walls of light confine and transport tiny particles on an optical conveyor belt.
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Walls of light produced by a digital micro-mirror projector confine 20-micron polystyrene particles and transport them on an optical conveyor belt.

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Credit: Ming Wu, University of California, Berkeley

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