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Members update (April 1st, 2024)	Retirement Keiji Sasaki Move Pin Christophe (Light-Matter Interaction for Quantum Technologies Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) An-Chieh Chen (Center for Mesoscopic Science, Institute for Molecular Science)
Graduation (March, 25th, 2024)	Ryota Shinohara (M.S.) Takuya Ogawa (Undergrad)
Ryota Shinohara was awarded as Presentation Insentive Award (Jan 6, 2024)	Ryota Shinohara was awarded the Presentation Incentive Award at the Hokkaido Branch of the Optical Society of Japan Symposium.
Yuji Sunaba was awarded as Best Student Paper Prize (Apr 21, 2023)	Yuji Sunaba was awarded as Best Student Paper Prize at the Optical Manipulation and Structured Materials Conference (OMC2023).
Members update (April 1st, 2023)	New members Takuya Ogawa (Undergrad) Graduation (March, 23th, 2023) Ryota Aisaka (M.S.) Ryo Kakuta (M.S.) Yamato Fukui (M.S.)
Sunaba and Takehara participated in the workshop "Structured Light for Life" at Adelaide University	Yuji Sunaba and Hikaru Takehara participated in the workshop "Structured Light for Life" held at Adelaide University from Feb 21 for two days.
Mr. Hao-Tse SU joined (Jan 10, 2023)	Mr. Hao-Tse SU from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan, will stay for two months to study optical manipulation.
Mr. Muhamad Safuan Mat Yeng joined (Dec 2, 2022)	Mr. Muhamad Safuan Mat Yeng from Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI), Malaysia, will stay for three months to study optical manipulation.

Optical Selection and Sorting of Nanoparticles according to Quantum Mechanical Properties	H. Fujiwara, K. Yamaguchi, T. Wada, H. Ishihara and K. Sasaki: Science Advances 7, eabe9551 (2021).
Nanoscale Color Sorting of Surface Plasmons in a Double-Nanogap Structure with Multipolar Plasmon Excitation	Y. Tanaka, M. Komatsu, H. Fujiwara, and K. Sasaki: Nano Letters 15, 7086–7090 (2015).
Nanostructured Potential of Optical Trapping Using a Plasmonic Nanoblock Pair	Y. Tanaka, S. Kaneda, and K. Sasaki: Nano Letters 13, 2146-2150 (2013).
Beating the standard quantum limit with four-entangled photons	T. Nagata, R. Okamoto, J. O'Brien, K. Sasaki, and S. Takeuchi: Science 316, 726–729 (2007).
Optical Trapping of a Metal-Particle and a Water Droplet by a Scanning Laser-Beam	K. Sasaki, M. Koshioka, H. Misawa, N. Kitamura, and H. Masuhara: Applied Physics Letters 60, 807–809 (1992).