  Optical trapping and manipulation of neutral particles has led to a variety
of experiments from stretching DNA-molecules to trapping and cooling of neutral
atoms. An exciting recent outgrowth of the technique is an experimental
implementation of atom Bose-Einstein condensation. In this paper, we propose
and demonstrate laser induced trapping for a new system--a gas of excitons in
quantum well structures. We report on the trapping of a highly degenerate Bose
gas of excitons in laser induced traps.
