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11 January 2025 Multichannel dual-fiber optical traps on chip
Aoran Yang, Yanzhi Zhang, Haining Feng, Hui An, Yingying Song, Siyuan Rao, Wei Xiong, Xinlin Chen, Xiang Han, Guangzong Xiao
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Abstract

Building on conventional dual-fiber optical trap systems, we have developed a multichannel dual-fiber optical trap chip that is simple and low-cost. This chip features three channels, enabling simultaneous capture of three individual microspheres within a liquid environment. With each microsphere being captured by opposing optical fibers at 45-mW power, the measured axial optical trap stiffnesses of each channel were 0.4626, 0.7184, and 0.6467 pN/μm, respectively, whereas the transverse optical trap stiffnesses were 1.7794, 1.6885, and 1.4560 pN/μm. This chip may have various applications in the field of microfluidics, such as optical stretching, viscosity coefficient measurements, cell analysis, and micromixing.

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Funding Statement

Aoran Yang, Yanzhi Zhang, Haining Feng, Hui An, Yingying Song, Siyuan Rao, Wei Xiong, Xinlin Chen, Xiang Han, and Guangzong Xiao "Multichannel dual-fiber optical traps on chip," Optical Engineering 64(1), 015103 (11 January 2025). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.64.1.015103
Received: 14 May 2024; Accepted: 16 December 2024; Published: 11 January 2025
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KEYWORDS
Optical tweezers

Microspheres

Optical engineering

Optical fibers

Liquids

Microfluidics

Silica

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