On-chip optical tweezers based on freeform optics
Abstract
Since its advent in the 1970s, optical tweezers have been widely deployed as a preferred non-contact technique for manipulating microscale objects. On-chip integrated optical tweezers, which afford significant size, weight, and cost benefits, have been implemented, relying upon near-field evanescent waves. As a result, these tweezers are only capable of manipulation in near-surface regions and often demand high power since the evanescent interactions are relatively weak. We introduce on-chip optical tweezers based on freeform micro-optics, which comprise optical reflectors or refractive lenses integrated on waveguide end facets via two-photon polymerization. The freeform optical design offers unprecedented degrees of freedom to design optical fields with strong three-dimensional intensity gradients, useful for trapping and manipulating suspended particles in an integrated chip-scale platform. We demonstrate the design, fabrication, and measurement of both reflective and refractive micro-optical tweezers. The reflective tweezers feature a remarkably low trapping threshold power, and the refractive tweezers are particularly useful for multiparticle trapping and interparticle interaction analysis. Our integrated micro-optical tweezers uniquely combine a compact footprint, broadband operation, high trapping efficiency, and scalable integration with planar photonic circuits. This class of tweezers is promising for on-chip sensing, cell assembly, particle dynamics analysis, and ion trapping.
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- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1770628
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AR0000847
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Optica
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Optica Journal Volume: 8 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2334-2536
- Publisher:
- Optical Society of America
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Citation Formats
Yu, Shaoliang, Lu, Jinsheng, Ginis, Vincent, Kheifets, Simon, Lim, Soon Wei Daniel, Qiu, Min, Gu, Tian, Hu, Juejun, and Capasso, Federico. On-chip optical tweezers based on freeform optics. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1364/OPTICA.418837.
Yu, Shaoliang, Lu, Jinsheng, Ginis, Vincent, Kheifets, Simon, Lim, Soon Wei Daniel, Qiu, Min, Gu, Tian, Hu, Juejun, & Capasso, Federico. On-chip optical tweezers based on freeform optics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.418837
Yu, Shaoliang, Lu, Jinsheng, Ginis, Vincent, Kheifets, Simon, Lim, Soon Wei Daniel, Qiu, Min, Gu, Tian, Hu, Juejun, and Capasso, Federico. Fri .
"On-chip optical tweezers based on freeform optics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.418837.
@article{osti_1770628,
title = {On-chip optical tweezers based on freeform optics},
author = {Yu, Shaoliang and Lu, Jinsheng and Ginis, Vincent and Kheifets, Simon and Lim, Soon Wei Daniel and Qiu, Min and Gu, Tian and Hu, Juejun and Capasso, Federico},
abstractNote = {Since its advent in the 1970s, optical tweezers have been widely deployed as a preferred non-contact technique for manipulating microscale objects. On-chip integrated optical tweezers, which afford significant size, weight, and cost benefits, have been implemented, relying upon near-field evanescent waves. As a result, these tweezers are only capable of manipulation in near-surface regions and often demand high power since the evanescent interactions are relatively weak. We introduce on-chip optical tweezers based on freeform micro-optics, which comprise optical reflectors or refractive lenses integrated on waveguide end facets via two-photon polymerization. The freeform optical design offers unprecedented degrees of freedom to design optical fields with strong three-dimensional intensity gradients, useful for trapping and manipulating suspended particles in an integrated chip-scale platform. We demonstrate the design, fabrication, and measurement of both reflective and refractive micro-optical tweezers. The reflective tweezers feature a remarkably low trapping threshold power, and the refractive tweezers are particularly useful for multiparticle trapping and interparticle interaction analysis. Our integrated micro-optical tweezers uniquely combine a compact footprint, broadband operation, high trapping efficiency, and scalable integration with planar photonic circuits. This class of tweezers is promising for on-chip sensing, cell assembly, particle dynamics analysis, and ion trapping.},
doi = {10.1364/OPTICA.418837},
journal = {Optica},
number = 3,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 12 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Fri Mar 12 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}
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