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.

    Holographic microfabrication and characterization system for soft matter and biological systems
    44.
    发明授权
    Holographic microfabrication and characterization system for soft matter and biological systems 有权
    软物质和生物系统的全息微加工和表征系统

    公开(公告)号:US08431884B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-04-30

    申请号:US12928178

    申请日:2010-12-06

    申请人: David G. Grier

    发明人: David G. Grier

    IPC分类号: H01S3/10

    摘要: A method and system for micromanipulation of objects of any shape. The method and system creates various forms of holographic optical traps for a variety of commercial purposes. Some alternate forms of traps include a dark form of optical traps, optical vortices with different helical winding numbers and optical traps with variable phase profiles imprinted thereon.

    摘要翻译: 用于显微操作任何形状的物体的方法和系统。 该方法和系统为各种商业目的创建各种形式的全息光学阱。 陷阱的一些替代形式包括暗形式的光学陷阱,具有不同螺旋线圈数的光学旋涡和其上印刷有可变相位轮廓的光学陷阱。

    Holographic microscopy of holographically trapped three-dimensional nanorod structures
    45.
    发明授权
    Holographic microscopy of holographically trapped three-dimensional nanorod structures 有权
    全息捕获的三维纳米棒结构的全息显微镜

    公开(公告)号:US08331019B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-12-11

    申请号:US12759839

    申请日:2010-04-14

    IPC分类号: G02B21/00

    摘要: A method and system for performing three-dimensional holographic microscopy of an optically trapped one dimensional structure. The method and system use an inverted optical microscope, a laser source which generates a trapping laser beam wherein the laser beam is focused by an objective lens into a plurality of optical traps. The method and system also use a collimated laser at an imaging wavelength to illuminate the structure created by the optical traps. Imaging light scattered by the optically tapped structure forms normalized intensity holograms that are imaged by a video camera and analyzed by optical formalisms to determine light field to reconstruct 3-D images for analysis and evaluation.

    摘要翻译: 用于执行光学捕获的一维结构的三维全息显微镜的方法和系统。 该方法和系统使用倒置的光学显微镜,产生捕获激光束的激光源,其中激光束被物镜聚焦成多个光阱。 该方法和系统还使用成像波长处的准直激光来照亮由光阱产生的结构。 通过光学抽头结构散射的成像光形成归一化的强度全息图,其由摄像机成像并通过光学形式进行分析,以确定光场以重建用于分析和评估的3-D图像。

    EXTENDED AND KNOTTED OPTICAL TRAPS IN THREE DIMENSIONS
    46.
    发明申请
    EXTENDED AND KNOTTED OPTICAL TRAPS IN THREE DIMENSIONS 有权
    扩展和关闭的三维光学行踪

    公开(公告)号:US20120223219A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-09-06

    申请号:US13411142

    申请日:2012-03-02

    IPC分类号: H05H3/00 G02B5/32

    摘要: The present invention is directed toward a system and method for projecting holographic optical traps whose intensity maxima are extended along specified paths in three dimensions with specified amplitude and phase profiles along those paths. Specifying paths that constitute knotted loops and phase profiles that direct radiation pressure along the knotted paths yields optical traps that exert knotted force fields. Knotted optical force fields have uses for inducing motion along knotted paths, with applications including the generation of knotted electric current loops in plasmas.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种用于投影全息光学陷阱的系统和方法,其全息光学陷阱的强度最大值沿着沿着这些路径的指定幅度和相位分布的三维沿着特定路径延伸。 指定构成打结环路和相位剖面的路径,其沿着打结路径引导辐射压力产生施加打结力场的光学陷阱。 打结的光学力场用于沿着打结的路径诱导运动,其应用包括在等离子体中产生打结的电流回路。

    Topologically multiplexed optical data communication
    49.
    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:US07978978B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-07-12

    申请号:US12759481

    申请日:2010-04-13

    申请人: David G. Grier

    发明人: David G. Grier

    IPC分类号: H04B10/00 H04B10/04 H04J14/02

    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。

    Holographic microfabrication and characterization system for soft matter and biological systems
    50.
    发明授权
    Holographic microfabrication and characterization system for soft matter and biological systems 有权
    软物质和生物系统的全息微加工和表征系统

    公开(公告)号:US07847238B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-12-07

    申请号:US11936033

    申请日:2007-11-06

    申请人: David G. Grier

    发明人: David G. Grier

    IPC分类号: G02B21/06

    摘要: A method and system for micromanipulation of objects of any shape. The method and system creates various forms of holographic optical traps for a variety of commercial purposes. Some alternate forms of traps include a dark form of optical traps, optical vortices with different helical winding numbers and optical traps with variable phase profiles imprinted thereon.

    摘要翻译: 用于显微操作任何形状的物体的方法和系统。 该方法和系统为各种商业目的创建各种形式的全息光学阱。 陷阱的一些替代形式包括暗形式的光学陷阱,具有不同螺旋线圈数的光学旋涡和其上印刷有可变相位轮廓的光学陷阱。