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  1. OPTICAL TRAPPING : Trapping near resonance could reduce biological damage

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    Tue, 1 Dec 2009

    The two forces associated with optical trapping are the scattering force in ..... conventional single-beam optical trapping , and it does so when the particle ..... commercially available here), optical trapping and tweezing is most frequently

  2. OPTICAL TRAPPING : Optical waveguides and microfluidics join forces in novel lab-on-a-chip design

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    Sat, 1 Dec 2007

    waveguides with microfluidic channels on a miniaturized optical - trapping platform that could find application in telecom ..... previous experiments using evanescent fields for optical trapping have shown that these fields are responsible for

  1. Cell Robotics corners the optical -trapping market

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    Sat, 1 Jul 1995

    Cell Robotics corners the optical - trapping market Kathy Kincade, Contributing ..... founded in 1988 to commercialize optical - trapping technology developed at Los ..... mechanically, laser-based optical - trapping instruments can precisely isolate

  2. OPTICAL TWEEZERS: Optical trapping empowers biophysics

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    Mon, 1 Jun 2009

    Click here to enlarge FIGURE 1. Optical trapping makes it possible to obtain ..... England) and researchers from the Optical Trapping Group at the University of St ..... information? Adding Raman analysis to optical trapping would enable, for instance

  3. OPTICAL TRAPPING : Ions held by laser light alone

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    Wed, 1 Dec 2010

    with a laser ramping up. Ion trapping by RF has been known for 60 years. In more recent decades, the field of optical trapping of neutral atoms has come into its own. "The question is: Why did it take thirty years longer to trap atoms rather

  4. Optical trapping assembles 3-D photonic quasicrystals

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    Thu, 1 Sep 2005

    a high-quality structure that they could replicate without error, they settled on an assembly method based on optical trapping . In the technique, colloidal silica microspheres are caught and moved into place within a clear UV-curing gel

  5. OPTICAL TRAPPING : Zone-plate optical tweezer can integrate with microfluidics

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    Sun, 1 Jun 2008

    The forces exerted by tightly focused laser beams can create optical tweezers for the purpose of manipulating small particles.

  6. OPTICAL TWEEZERS: Optical trapping opens wide

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    Mon, 1 Jun 2009

    Newly available to broad audiences, optical-tweezer technology is becoming easier to implement and operate, and is poised to open new vistas—especially for single-molecule discovery.

  7. NANOPHOTONICS: Golden touch proves too hot for optical trapping

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    Sun, 1 Oct 2006

    heating, which they then verified experimentally (see figure). Click here to enlarge image The researchers’ optical - trapping instrument used a 1064 nm laser for trapping and 810 and 850 nm diode lasers for position detection, similar to

  8. OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: OPTICAL TOOLS - Trapping with light ...fantastic

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    Wed, 1 Aug 2007

    Prizes based on their work), optical trapping has become a well-respected ..... measurement studies (see “How optical trapping works,” p. 84).1 In recent ..... has prompted new interest in optical trapping , particularly for biophysics