Particle trapping (VIDEO)

Optica

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The movie demonstrates how contour-tracking optical tweezers can trap irregular shaped particles by extracting the target particle’s shape from images and then automatically changing the scanning light pattern used for trapping. The blue dots show illumination points while the red dots depict the contours extracted by the new method.

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Takahashi-Michihata Lab, The University of Tokyo

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