Miniaturized Optical Particle Manipulation with Integrated VCSEL Arrays
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چکیده
In recent years, optical manipulation has gained increasing interest, especially in combination with microfluidics. The contamination-free handling of micrometer-sized particles without any mechanical contact is an attractive tool for biology and medicine. VCSELs (vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers) are an excellent choice for the trapping lasers, offering the opportunity of miniaturization by means of integration, and of parallel particle manipulation by using two-dimensional VCSEL arrays.
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