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New Trends on Optical Fiber Tweezers

2015; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 33; Issue: 16 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/jlt.2015.2448119

1558-2213

R. S. Rodrigues Ribeiro, Olivier Soppera, Abel Oliva, Ariel Guerreiro, P. A. S. Jorge,

Plant Surface Properties and Treatments

In the last few decades, optical trapping has played an unique role concerning contactless trapping and manipulation of biological specimens. More recently, optical fiber tweezers (OFTs) are emerging as a desirable alternative to bulk optical systems. In this paper, an overview of the state of the art of OFTs is presented, focusing on the main fabrication methods, their features and main achievements. In addition, new OFTs fabricated by guided wave photo polymerization are reported. Their theoretical and experimental characterization is given and results demonstrating its application in the manipulation of yeast cells and the organelles of plant cells are presented.