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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Robust control approach to force estimation in a constant position optical tweezers

Tanuj Aggarwal, Hullas Sehgal, and Murti Salapaka

Feedback enhanced optical tweezers with position regulation capability enable detection and estimation of forces in the pico-Newton regime. In this article we delineate the fundamental limitations and challenges of existing approaches for regulating position and force estimation in an optical tweezer. A modern control systems approach is shown to improve the bandwidth of force estimation by three to four times which is corroborated experimentally.

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