Design of a dual beam optical trap
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Author(s)
Frejowski, Tom.
Advisor(s)
Ian W. Hunter
Date Issued
2019
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Dual beam optical traps use radiation pressure from two counterpropagating laser beams to manipulate microscopic particles. Typical traps use optical fibers to guide those beams. This thesis proposes a design for the coaxial alignment of optical fibers that allows for the fibers to translate along a common axis while maintaining alignment. Additionally, this design enables the optical fibers and trapping samples to be quickly and easily swapped out for different experiments. A full optical trapping setup was constructed using this design and successfully demonstrated the trapping of multiple polystyrene microspheres.
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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2019
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-30).
Subjects
Mechanical Engineering.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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