Highly focused laser beams offer exciting possibilities for the handling and manipulation of small particles. Even though the technique of “optical tweezing” has been discussed and applied in research labs for more than 40 years a breakthrough in industrial applications has not taken place so far. Major obstacles result from the complex systems used to generate the necessary focus distribution. Our latest research indicates that optical tweezers based on compact and integrated optical systems are feasible. Such systems could open the field to a wide variety of new applications.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Compact Optical systems for Micromanipulation
Stefan Sinzinger, Andreas Oeder, Sebastian Stoebenau, Ronald Kampmann
Highly focused laser beams offer exciting possibilities for the handling and manipulation of small particles. Even though the technique of “optical tweezing” has been discussed and applied in research labs for more than 40 years a breakthrough in industrial applications has not taken place so far. Major obstacles result from the complex systems used to generate the necessary focus distribution. Our latest research indicates that optical tweezers based on compact and integrated optical systems are feasible. Such systems could open the field to a wide variety of new applications.
Highly focused laser beams offer exciting possibilities for the handling and manipulation of small particles. Even though the technique of “optical tweezing” has been discussed and applied in research labs for more than 40 years a breakthrough in industrial applications has not taken place so far. Major obstacles result from the complex systems used to generate the necessary focus distribution. Our latest research indicates that optical tweezers based on compact and integrated optical systems are feasible. Such systems could open the field to a wide variety of new applications.
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