Graham Gibson et al 2008 J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 10 044009 doi:10.1088/1464-4258/10/4/044009
Graham Gibson1, David M Carberry2, Graeme Whyte1,4, Jonathan Leach1, Johannes Courtial1, Joseph C Jackson3, Daniel Robert3, Mervyn Miles2 and Miles Padgett1
Show affiliationsWe report a holographic assembler workstation for optical trapping and micro-manipulation. The workstation is based on a titanium sapphire laser, making it particularly suited for biomaterials and incorporates a choice of user interfaces for different applications. The system is designed around a commercial inverted microscope and is configured such that it can be easily used by the non-specialist. We demonstrate the bio-capabilities of our system by manipulating a group of yeast cells, a single red blood cell and a single cell of the green algae colony Volvox.
42.55.Rz Doped-insulator lasers and other solid state lasers
42.62.Be Biological and medical applications
87.80.Fe Micromanipulation of biological structures
Instrumentation and measurement
Issue 4 (April 2008)
Received 3 October 2007, accepted for publication 14 November 2007
Published 28 March 2008
Graham Gibson et al 2008 J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 10 044009
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