• DocumentCode
    1645544
  • Title

    Optical trapping and stretching of lipid vesicles

  • Author

    Piñón, Tessa M. ; Hirst, Linda S. ; Sharping, Jay E.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng., Univ. of California, Merced, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a dual-beam fiber trap for optically stretching lipid vesicles encapsulated with poly(ethylene glycol) polymer solution. Vesicle deformations exhibit ranges of linear and non-linear response for applied peak stresses of ~7-60 mN/m2.
  • Keywords
    biomechanics; deformation; encapsulation; lipid bilayers; nonlinear optics; optical fibres; polymer solutions; radiation pressure; applied peak stresses; dual-beam fiber trap; encapsulation; lipid vesicles; nonlinear response; optical stretching; optical trapping; poly(ethylene glycol) polymer solution; vesicle deformations; Biomedical optical imaging; Charge carrier processes; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical refraction;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325359
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1645544