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Microfluidic sorting with blinking optical traps |
Optics Letters, Vol. 37, Issue 10, pp. 1739-1741 (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.37.001739
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Abstract
It is shown that by appropriately choosing the periodicity of a blinking optical trap only larger sized colloidal spheres can be selectively trapped out of a mixed population. This happens because smaller sized, more agile, spheres escape out of the trap volume during the off period of the trap beam. Therefore, by scanning an array of blinking traps over a mixed sample, bigger spheres can be forced to move with the traps and eventually could be taken to the output side. Experimental demonstration of sorting between 1 µm and 2 µm diameter silica spheres is presented.
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OCIS Codes
(170.0180) Medical optics and biotechnology : Microscopy
(350.4855) Other areas of optics : Optical tweezers or optical manipulation
ToC Category:
Medical Optics and Biotechnology
History
Original Manuscript: March 1, 2012
Revised Manuscript: March 30, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: March 30, 2012
Published: May 15, 2012
Virtual Issues
Vol. 7, Iss. 7 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics
Citation
R. Dasgupta, R. S. Verma, and P. K. Gupta, "Microfluidic sorting with blinking optical traps," Opt. Lett. 37, 1739-1741 (2012)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-37-10-1739
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