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Optical Tweezers Approaches for Probing Multiscale Protein Mechanics and Assembly
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2020 Multi-step assembly of individual protein building blocks is key to the formation of essential higher-order structures inside and outside of cells. Optical tweezers is a technique well suited to investigate the mechanics and dynamics of these structures ...
Kathrin Lehmann +7 more
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Generation of Hybrid Optical Trap Array by Holographic Optical Tweezers
Frontiers in Physics, 2021 Enabled by multiple optical traps, holographic optical tweezers can manipulate multiple particles in parallel flexibly. Spatial light modulators are widely used in holographic optical tweezers, in which Gaussian point (GP) trap arrays or special mode ...
Xing Li +12 more
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Micromachines, 2023 Counter-propagating optical tweezers are experimental platforms for the frontier exploration of science and precision measurement. The polarization of the trapping beams significantly affects the trapping status. Using the T-matrix method, we numerically
Ming Chen +7 more
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Applied Sciences, 2020 An optical tweezer composed of a strongly focused single-spatial-mode Gaussian beam of a red-detuned 1064-nm laser can confine a single-cesium (Cs) atom at the strongest point of the light intensity.
Rui Sun +4 more
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Accounting for polarization in the calibration of a donut beam axial optical tweezers. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Advances in light shaping techniques are leading to new tools for optical trapping and micromanipulation. For example, optical tweezers made from Laguerre-Gaussian or donut beams display an increased axial trap strength and can impart angular momentum to
Russell Pollari, Joshua N Milstein
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Ultra-short bandwidth optical tweezer generation using GaAs ring resonator system
Results in Physics, 2019 In this article, the modified add/drop multiplexer system as ring resonator is proposed for optical tweezers generation. The entire effect is analyzed by the nonlinear existence of the proposed structure.
I.S. Amiri +3 more
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Ray Optics Model for Optical Trapping of Biconcave Red Blood Cells
Micromachines, 2022 Red blood cells (RBCs) or erythrocytes are essential for oxygenating the peripherical tissue in the human body. Impairment of their physical properties may lead to severe diseases. Optical tweezers have in experiments been shown to be a powerful tool for
Riccardo Tognato, Philip H. Jones
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Manipulation of Biological Cells Using a Robot-Aided Optical Tweezers System
Micromachines, 2018 This article reviews the autonomous manipulation strategies of biological cells utilizing optical tweezers, mainly including optical direct and indirect manipulation strategies. The typical and latest achievements in the optical manipulation of cells are
Mingyang Xie +2 more
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Genetic Material Manipulation and Modification by Optical Trapping and Nanosurgery-A Perspective
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020 Light can be employed as a tool to alter and manipulate matter in many ways. An example has been the implementation of optical trapping, the so called optical tweezers, in which light can hold and move small objects with 3D control.
Alfonso Blázquez-Castro +9 more
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JPhys Photonics, 2023 Optical tweezers are tools made of light that enable contactless pushing, trapping, and manipulation of objects, ranging from atoms to space light sails.
Giovanni Volpe +82 more
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