
這是今年三月份的Optics and Photonics News的主題及封面.(OPN, Vol.21(3),March 2010).記得我剛開使玩Optical Tweezers時,都還寫著"過去20年.....一種新的技術....."轉眼間就變40年啦:P(當然要看對Optical Tweezers的開始的定義是何時,還有40年可能有點灌水啦,時間是沒過那麼快啦:P).....而這個NEWS,還要感謝四月份參加好友及學妹婚禮時(郭郭喜宴),同學林老大告訴我的.....

Fig. 4 Optical stretching. A cell is trapped between two counter-propagating beams in a dual-beam fiber trap. The laser wavelength used is 1,064 nm. (Top) With low laser power of 200 mW, the cell has no measureable deformation. (Bottom) However, at higher powers of 1.4 W, the cell is appreciably stretched. The amount of stretching is linked to the properties of the cytoskeleton.

Fig.5 Optical injection of a gold nanoparticle into a cell. The nanoparticle is first trapped by continuous wave optical tweezers. Once in position at the surface of the cell, a pulsed femtosecond beam is applied; this forces the cell through the cell membrane.

Fig.6 The aerosol carousel. Five aerosol water droplets are trapped in a ring. The droplets can be rotated, using holographic optical tweezers, to move through the “interrogation zone” denoted by the dashed box on the left-hand side. Here a Raman spectra is taken (right-hand image) and can be used to analyze the droplet composition as well as to gain information on its size. Using this technique, one can make comparative measurements between the different droplets