Title :
Microparticle guiding and acceleration in optical lattices generated by silicon-on-insulator multimode-interference waveguide-based arrayed optical tweezers (SMART)
Author :
Ting Lei ; Poon, Andrew W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hong Kong, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate optical guiding and acceleration of 2.2μm polystyrene particles in a fluidic flow using uniform and non-uniform optical lattices generated at 1550nm wavelengths by silicon-on-insulator multimode-interference waveguide-based arrayed optical tweezers (SMART).
Keywords :
integrated optics; microfluidics; optical arrays; optical lattices; optical waveguides; radiation pressure; silicon-on-insulator; SMART; fluidic flow; microparticle guiding; nonuniform optical lattices; optical guiding; optical lattice acceleration; polystyrene particles; silicon-on-insulator multimode-interference waveguide-based arrayed optical tweezers; size 2.2 mum; wavelength 1550 nm; Acceleration; Computer vision; Image motion analysis; Lattices; Optical distortion; Optical imaging; Optical waveguides;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
