29 December 2021 Beak-shaped fiber optical cell catapult
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Abstract

We propose a fiber optical cell catapult that is bird beak-shaped fiber cone optical tweezers that trap cells, then push them to the fiber tip via the evanescent fields on the side surface of the fiber cone, and finally eject them in a particular direction. The intensity distribution of the light field and the optical force of the fiber catapult are calculated by the finite element method. Moreover, an experimental study of the fiber catapult is given using yeast cells.

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Deng Hong, Ze Shen, Ming Chen, Yu Cheng, Chuanxin Teng, Shijie Deng, Hongyan Yang, Ronghui Xu, Hongchang Deng, Jun Yin, Lingyao Yu, Houquan Liu, and Libo Yuan "Beak-shaped fiber optical cell catapult," Optical Engineering 60(12), 124111 (29 December 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.60.12.124111
Received: 11 September 2021; Accepted: 15 December 2021; Published: 29 December 2021
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