Silicon-on-insulator 100µm-core multimode interferometer waveguides for two-dimensional microparticle trapping and manipulation

Author

Lei, Ting ; Poon, Andrew W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hong Kong, China

fYear

2012

Firstpage

66

Lastpage

68

Abstract

We adapt silicon-on-insulator 100μm-core multimode interferometer waveguides for two-dimensional microparticle trapping and manipulation. The waveguide mode fields in 1550nm wavelengths enable thermal flow assisted optical manipulation of 2.2μm polystyrene microparticles in a thin fluidic cell.

Keywords

integrated optics; light interferometers; micro-optics; optical polymers; optical waveguides; radiation pressure; silicon-on-insulator; 100μm-core multimode interferometer waveguides; Si; optical manipulation; polystyrene microparticles; silicon-on-insulator; size 100 mum; size 2.2 mum; thermal flow; thin fluidic cell; two-dimensional microparticle manipulation; two-dimensional microparticle trapping; waveguide mode fields; wavelength 1550 nm; Arrays; Charge carrier processes; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry; Silicon; multimode interference; optical waveguides; optofluidic; particle manipulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1949-2081

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0826-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GROUP4.2012.6324088

Filename

6324088