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Portable Optical Tweezers Kit
Chapter 8: Teaching Tips
Rev B, July 8, 2019
Page 73
Chapter 8 Teaching Tips
In this chapter we present a simplified approach to help students in understanding the
basic physical principles of optical tweezers. In the following, we discuss how a particle is
trapped in a focused laser beam and how a three-dimensional optical trap works.
For keeping an object in place, a restoring force has to act as soon as the object leaves
its equilibrium position. Since the object is trapped only by the laser, the restoring force
has to be applied by the laser itself.
An essential precondition for trapping an object is that it is transparent to the laser light.
This means that at least part of the light has to be transmitted. Part of the laser light is
reflected off the object’s surface, while the other part is refracted and transmitted. Thereby,
the laser faces a change in direction which corresponds to a change in the momentum.
This in turn means that there has to be a force between the laser light and the object.
Intuitively, one would expect the particle to be deflected. However, in an optical trap the
object is drawn into the laser focus.
The laser beam exhibits a certain intensity profile. In order to create an optical trap, this
profile needs to possess a point with maximal intensity, such as in a Gaussian profile.
Gaussian Intensity Profile
As shown in Figure 54, the cross section of a laser beam has a radius
𝑅
. The intensity
varies radially: the intensity is maximal in the center of the beam and declines towards the
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