Optical Trapping and Manipulation Using Optical Fibers

Yuanhao Lou; Dan Wu; Yuanjie Pang

doi:10.1007/s42765-019-00009-8

Advanced Fiber Materials ›› 2019, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (2) : 83 -100. DOI: 10.1007/s42765-019-00009-8

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Optical Trapping and Manipulation Using Optical Fibers

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¹School of Optical and Electronic Information and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074Wuhan, Hubei, China

^c yuanjie_pang@hust.edu.cn

Yuanhao Lou

received his Bachelor degree from the School of Optical and Electronic Information of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He is now a Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. Pang at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Lou’s research focuses on the assembling of a single-photon source using a nano-optical tweezers, and the integration of such a source into an all-fiber system.

Dan Wu

received her Bachelor degree from the School of Optical and Electronic Information of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology. She is now a Master’s student in the group of Prof. Pang at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Wu’s research focuses on in-situ optical characterization by combining nano-optical tweezers with Raman spectroscopy, and integrating of such Raman tweezers into an all-fiber system.

Yuanjie Pang

received his Bachelor of Engineering and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Victoria in 2008 and 2012. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Pharmacy of the University of Michigan during 2012–2015, and a Postdoctoral Fellow jointly appointed by the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Toronto during 2015–2018. Pang has been appointed as a Professor at the School of Optical and Electronic Information of Huazhong University of Science and Technology from 2018. His major research interest include nano-optical tweezers, as well as renewable energy storage.

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An optical trap forms a restoring optical force field to immobilize and manipulate tiny objects. A fiber optical trap is capable of establishing the restoring optical force field using one or a few pieces of optical fiber, and it greatly simplifies the optical setup by removing bulky optical components, such as microscope objectives from the working space. It also inherits other major advantages of optical fibers: flexible in shape, robust against disturbance, and highly integrative with fiber-optic systems and on-chip devices. This review will begin with a concise introduction on the principle of optical trapping techniques, followed by a comprehensive discussion on different types of fiber optical traps, including their structures, functionalities and associated fabrication techniques. A brief outlook to the future development and potential applications of fiber optical traps is given at the end.

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Yuanhao Lou, Dan Wu, Yuanjie Pang. Optical Trapping and Manipulation Using Optical Fibers. Advanced Fiber Materials, 2019, 1(2): 83-100 DOI:10.1007/s42765-019-00009-8