Nanostructure-enhanced Laser Tweezers for Efficient Trapping and Alignment of Particles

Overview

Journal Opt Express

Specialties Biophysics
Ophthalmology

Date 2010 Aug 20

PMID 20720985

Citations 4

Authors

Benjamin K Wilson

Tim Mentele

Stephanie Bachar

Emily Knouf

Ausra Bendoraite

Muneesh Tewari

Suzie H Pun

Lih Y Lin

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Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a purely optical approach to trap and align particles using the interaction of polarized light with periodic nanostructures to generate enhanced trapping force. With a weakly focused laser beam, we observed efficient trapping and transportation of polystyrene beads with sizes ranging from 10 mum down to 190 nm as well as cancer cell nuclei. In addition, alignment of non-spherical dielectric particles to a 1-D periodic nanostructure was achieved with low laser intensity without attachment to birefringent crystals. Bacterial cells were trapped and aligned with incident optical intensity as low as 17 microW/microm(2).

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