Structured light in optical tweezers for functional microstructures
Speaker: Declan Armstrong
Affiliation: University of Queensland
Abstract
Two-Photon-Photopolymerisation (2PP) provides a means to produce versatile 3D micro-structures for optical trapping and cell study experiments with sub-diffraction-limited resolution. In this talk, I demonstrate how a holographic optical trapping apparatus can be modified to rapidly design, fabricate, and utilise 3D structures in-house with commonplace optical components. Fabrication using dozens of simultaneous, independent polymerising foci is achieved with the aid of an in-situ (within the sample) aberration correction algorithm, capable of correcting arbitrary beam distortions imposed by any number of optical elements. This robust algorithm is shown to be capable to focusing light even through scattering media using phase modulation to maximise interference between orthogonal modes on a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM). Finally, I demonstrate how micro-structures can be used to test simple models of collective motion using geometric confinement of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria.
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