“…Many intensity profiles can be used in optical trapping experiments, such as Laguerre-Gaussian beam (Ren, Li, Huang, Wu, Gao, Wang & Li, 2010;Ren, Wu, Zhou, Fu, Sun, Wang & Li, 2010), radially polarized beam (Kozawa & Sato, 2010), etc. Here we consider the most commonly utilized single beam optical trap with Gaussian intensity profile…”