Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia 1 article published in JoVE Engineering Safe Experimentation in Optical Levitation of Charged Droplets Using Remote Labs Daniel Galán1, Oscar Isaksson2, Jonas Enger2, Mats Rostedt2, Andreas Johansson2, Dag Hanstorp2, Luis de la Torre1 1Departamento de Informática y Automática, UNED, 2Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg Optical levitation is a method for levitating micrometer-sized dielectric objects using laser light. Utilizing computers and automation systems, an experiment on optical levitation can be controlled remotely. Here, we present a remotely controlled optical levitation system that is used both for educational and research purposes.
