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A computer-generated hologram projects a beam of light that focuses to interlocking inclined rings, a simple knot known as a Hopf link. Each ring acts as an optical trap that can gather and hold micrometer-scale objects. The same hologram also imposes phase gradients around the Hopf link, thereby creating a knot in the total optical force field.

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