@inproceedings{b5622354cc7a4431835975d4caa5d5f8,
title = "Optical fiber tweezers fabricated by two photon lithography",
abstract = "Optical tweezers are unique tools for manipulation and analysis of single cells. The development of miniaturised trapping systems is a key issue as they could reduce system complexity and improve usability. In addition miniaturised traps can be easily combined with microfluidic circuits and they could open the way to in-vivo applications. In Ref. [1], tweezers based on an optical fiber bundle were proposed, where the equivalent effect of a high NA focusing system was obtained by total-internal-reflection (TIR) at the interface between fibers and surrounding-medium. The optical beams' deflection obtained through TIR makes them converging in the same spatial point that corresponds to the trap. Such a fiber-based approach is in principle extremely powerful as it doesn't require any critical alignment and, besides miniaturization, it opens the way to the realization of a multipurpose tool including additional optical functions for analysis and actuation of the trapped cells.",
author = "C. Liberale and {Di Fabrizio}, E. and G. Cojoc and G. Perozziello and P. Candeloro and F. Bragheri and L. Ferrara and P. Minzioni and I. Cristiani",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943242",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781457705335",
series = "2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011",
booktitle = "2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011",
note = "2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011 ; Conference date: 22-05-2011 Through 26-05-2011",
}