Title :
Optical manipulation of microbeads in an integrated optofluidic device
Author :
Cai, Hong ; Poon, Andrew W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hong Kong, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate optical manipulation of 1-μm-sized polystyrene beads in a silicon-based integrated optofluidic device. The relative velocity of the optically driven microbeads is ~14.2 μm/s and ~3.5 μm/s using 0.7-μm and 0.5-μm-thick silicon nitride waveguides.
Keywords :
integrated optics; microfluidics; radiation pressure; integrated optofluidic device; microbeads; optical manipulation; polystyrene beads; silicon nitride waveguides; Fluidics; Integrated optics; Lab-on-a-chip; Microfluidics; Optical coupling; Optical devices; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Silicon compounds; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
