Apparatus for using optical tweezers to manipulate materials

    公开(公告)号:US06416190B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-07-09

    申请号:US09845045

    申请日:2001-04-27

    IPC分类号: G02B2700

    摘要: A method and apparatus for control of optical trap arrays and formation of particle arrays using light that is in the visible portion of the spectrum. The method and apparatus provides a laser and a time variable diffractive optical element to allow dynamic control of optical trap arrays and consequent control of particle arrays and also the ability to manipulate singular objects using a plurality of optical traps. By avoiding wavelengths associated with strong absorption in the underlying material, creating optical traps with a continuous-wave laser, optimizing the efficiency of individual traps, and trapping extended samples at multiple points, the rate of deleterious nonlinear optical processes can be minimized.

    Volumetric Imaging of a Holographic Optical Traps
    13.
    发明申请
    Volumetric Imaging of a Holographic Optical Traps 有权
    全息光阱的体积成像

    公开(公告)号:US20120057213A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-03-08

    申请号:US13293597

    申请日:2011-11-10

    IPC分类号: G03H1/08 G02B5/32

    摘要: A method and system for manipulating object using a three dimensional optical trap configuration. By use of selected hologram on optical strap can be configured as a preselected three dimensional configuration for a variety of complex uses. The system can include various optical train components, such as partially transmissive mirrors and Keplerian telescope components to provide advantageously three dimensional optical traps.

    摘要翻译: 一种使用三维光阱配置来操纵物体的方法和系统。 通过在光学带上使用所选择的全息图可以配置为用于各种复杂用途的预选的三维配置。 该系统可以包括各种光学组件,例如部分透射镜和开普勒望远镜组件,以有利地提供三维光阱。

    System and method for holographic optic trap bonding
    16.
    发明授权
    System and method for holographic optic trap bonding 有权
    全息光学陷阱键合的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07678222B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-03-16

    申请号:US11473398

    申请日:2006-06-23

    IPC分类号: B29C65/00

    摘要: A system and method for bonding and unbonding of small objects using small adhesive particles. The system and method includes the use of a plurality of optical tweezers to manipulate objects to be bonded and adhesive particles suspended in a fluid. The objects to be bonded (or unbonded) and the adhesive particles are positioned by lower power optical tweezers and then an intense bonding optical tweezer is activated to cause the adhesive to join the objects together (or used to unbond objects).

    摘要翻译: 一种使用小粘合剂颗粒粘合和粘合小物体的系统和方法。 该系统和方法包括使用多个光学镊子来操纵待粘合的物体和悬浮在流体中的粘合剂颗粒。 待粘合(或未粘合)的物体和粘合剂颗粒通过较低功率的光学镊子定位,然后激活强力粘合光学镊子以使粘合剂将物体连接在一起(或用于将物体接合)。

    Topologically multiplexed optical data communication
    17.
    发明授权
    Topologically multiplexed optical data communication 有权
    拓扑复用光数据通信

    公开(公告)号:US07546037B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-06-09

    申请号:US11222469

    申请日:2005-09-08

    申请人: David G. Grier

    发明人: David G. Grier

    CPC分类号: H04B10/501 H04B10/70

    摘要: Systems and methods for encoding information in the topology of superpositions of helical modes of light, and retrieving information from each of the superposed modes individually or in parallel. These methods can be applied to beams of light that already carry information through other channels, such as amplitude modulation or wavelength dispersive multiplexing, enabling such beams to be multiplexed and subsequently demultiplexed. The systems and methods of the present invention increase the number of data channels carried by a factor of the number of superposed helical modes.

    摘要翻译: 用于在螺旋模式的叠加的拓扑中对信息进行编码的系统和方法,以及单独地或并行地从每个叠加模式中检索信息。 这些方法可以应用于已经通过诸如幅度调制或波长色散复用的其它信道携带信息的光束,使得能够对这样的光束进行多路复用并随后解复用。 本发明的系统和方法通过叠加螺旋模式的数量的因数来增加承载的数据信道的数量。

    Apparatus and process for the lateral deflection and separation of flowing particles by a static array of optical tweezers
    18.
    发明授权
    Apparatus and process for the lateral deflection and separation of flowing particles by a static array of optical tweezers 失效
    用于通过光学镊子的静态阵列横向偏转和分离流动颗粒的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US06797942B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-09-28

    申请号:US09951117

    申请日:2001-09-13

    IPC分类号: G01N2163

    摘要: A method and apparatus for laterally deflecting and/or separating a flow of particles using a static array of optical tweezers. In an array of optical tweezers with a lattice constant larger than the size of a particle of interest, particles driven past the array by an external force experience an additional interaction with the array of traps. By altering the angle of the array of traps relative to the external force, the particles' movement from trap to trap inside the array can be biased away from the direction of the external force, thereby enabling selective deflection and/or separation of particles.

    摘要翻译: 一种使用光学镊子的静态阵列横向偏转和/或分离颗粒流的方法和装置。 在具有大于感兴趣的粒子的大小的晶格常数的光学镊子的阵列中,通过外力驱动通过阵列的颗粒经历与陷阱阵列的额外的相互作用。 通过改变陷阱阵列相对于外力的角度,颗粒从阵列内的陷阱到陷阱的移动可以被偏离远离外力的方向,从而使得能够选择性地偏转和/或分离颗粒。

    Optical solenoid beams
    19.
    发明授权
    Optical solenoid beams 有权
    光电磁铁

    公开(公告)号:US08922857B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-12-30

    申请号:US13424203

    申请日:2012-03-19

    摘要: Optical solenoid beams, diffractionless solutions of the Helmholtz equation whose diffraction -limited in-plane intensity peak spirals around the optical axis, and whose wavefronts carry an independent helical pitch. The solenoid beams have the noteworthy property of being able to exert forces on illuminated objects that are directed opposite to the direction of the light's propagation. Optical solenoid beams therefore act as true tractor beams that are capable of transporting material back toward their source.

    摘要翻译: 光学螺线管光束,亥姆霍兹方程的无衍射解,其衍射限制的面内强度峰值围绕光轴螺旋,波前具有独立的螺距。 螺线管具有能够对与光的传播方向相反的照明物体施加力的值得注意的特性。 因此,光电螺线管作为真正的拖拉机梁,能够​​将材料运送回其源头。

    METHOD AND SYSEM FOR MEASURING POROSITY OF PARTICLES
    20.
    发明申请
    METHOD AND SYSEM FOR MEASURING POROSITY OF PARTICLES 有权
    用于测量颗粒物质的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US20130278743A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-10-24

    申请号:US13883260

    申请日:2011-11-04

    IPC分类号: G02B21/36

    摘要: A method for analyzing porosity of a particle and a medium disposed in the porosity of the particle. A video-holographic microscope is provided to analyze interference patterns produced by providing a laser source to output a collimated beam, scattering the collimated beam off a particle and interacting with an unscattered beam to generate the interference pattern for analyzation to determine the refractive index of the particle and a medium disposed in the porosity of the particle to measure porosity and the medium.

    摘要翻译: 用于分析颗粒的孔隙率的方法和设置在颗粒的孔隙中的介质。 提供视频全息显微镜以分析通过提供激光源来输出准直光束产生的干涉图案,将准直光束从粒子散射并与未散射光束相互作用以产生用于分析的干涉图案,以确定折射率 颗粒和设置在颗粒孔隙中的介质以测量孔隙度和介质。