Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 8, Issue 2, 170(2010)

Monte-Carlo simulation of effective stiffness of time-sharing optical tweezers

Yuxuan Ren1,2, Jianguang Wu2, Mincheng Zhong2, and Yinmei Li1,2,3
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  • 1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Heifei 230026, China
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 3Anhui Key Laboratory for Optoelectronic Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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    The Brownian motion of a polystyrene bead trapped in a time-sharing optical tweezers (TSOT) is numerically simulated by adopting Monte-Carlo technique. By analyzing the Brownian motion signal, the effective stiffness of a TSOT is acquired at different switching frequencies. Simulation results confirm that for a specific laser power and duty ratio, the effective stiffness varies with the frequency at low frequency range, while at high frequency range it keeps constant. Our results reveal that the switching frequency can be used to control the stability of time-sharing optical tweezers in a range.

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    Yuxuan Ren, Jianguang Wu, Mincheng Zhong, Yinmei Li. Monte-Carlo simulation of effective stiffness of time-sharing optical tweezers[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(2): 170

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    Paper Information

    Received: Apr. 7, 2009

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 5, 2010

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20100802.0170

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