Quantifying trapping stability of optical tweezers with an external flow

Feng Xu; Yarong Yu; Yang Liu; Yao Chang; Wenxiang Jiao; Lin Wang; Hopui Ho; Bei Wu; Fei Xu; Yanqing Lu; Yuanjie Pang; Guanghui Wang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.527376

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 8, 1741(2024)

Quantifying trapping stability of optical tweezers with an external flow

Feng Xu^1,2、†, Yarong Yu^3、†, Yang Liu^1,2、†, Yao Chang^1,2, Wenxiang Jiao^1,2, Lin Wang^1,2, Hopui Ho⁴, Bei Wu³, Fei Xu^1,2, Yanqing Lu^1,2,5, Yuanjie Pang^3,6, and Guanghui Wang^1,2、*

Author Affiliations

¹College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

²Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Integration of the Ministry of Education, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

³School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory of Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

⁴Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China

⁵e-mail: yqlu@nju.edu.cn

⁶e-mail: yuanjie_pang@hust.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Surface Optics and Plasmonics

Received: Apr. 18, 2024

Accepted: May. 23, 2024

Published Online: Jul. 30, 2024

The Author Email: Guanghui Wang (wangguanghui@nju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.527376

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