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Light Robotics-Structure-Mediated Nanobiophotonics

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    0506845 - ÚPT 2020 RIV NL eng M - Monography Chapter
    Gluckstad, J. - Simpson, Stephen Hugh - Hanna, S.
    Optomechanical microtools and shape-induced forces.
    Light Robotics-Structure-Mediated Nanobiophotonics. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2017 - (Gluckstad, J.; Palima, D.), s. 65-98. Nanophotonics Series. ISBN 978-0-7020-7096-9
    Institutional support: RVO:68081731
    Keywords : optical forces * optomechanical microtools * shape-induced forces * surface imaging
    OECD category: Optics (including laser optics and quantum optics)

    The vast majority of experiments with optical tweezers have employed microspheres to act as force transducers, image surfaces and extract a wealth of additional information about their local microscale environment. Microspheres are easy to track and readily available in a variety of sizes and materials. In particular, force transduction using optically trapped microspheres has enjoyed great success: the application and measurement of picoNewton scale forces has uncovered an abundance of micromechanical detail of the operation of biological molecular motors. However, increasing the complexity of a microprobe's shape opens up a range of new experiments previously inaccessible with the use of microspheres alone. This chapter details some of the work investigating the deployment of optomechanical microtools: free-floating nonspherical microscale structures that can be controllably manipulated and brought to life using optical forces, while their motion is tracked in exquisite detail to make a range of new types of quantitative measurements on their surroundings. The first part of the chapter details the underpinning theory describing how complex shapes behave in optical fields. The second part describes experimental implementations of optomechanical micro tools: their fabrication, 3D tracking, and control.
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