Holographic optical tweezers at the tip of a multimode fibre (Conference Presentation)

Ivo T. Leite; Sergey Turtaev; Xin Jiang; Martin Siler; Philip S. Russell; Tomáš Čižmár

doi:10.1117/12.2510418

4 March 2019 Holographic optical tweezers at the tip of a multimode fibre (Conference Presentation)

Ivo T. Leite, Sergey Turtaev, Xin Jiang, Martin Siler, Philip S. Russell, Tomáš Čižmár

Proceedings Volume 10886, Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Control for Biological Systems V; 108860M (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2510418
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2019, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We have developed an all-solid, step-index multimode fibre based on compound "soft-glasses" yielding a very-high NA reaching 0.96 at 1064nm. By further extending the methods of holographic control of light propagation in multimode fibres, we were able to mitigate the adverse effect of mode-dependent loss affecting the new fibre type. This enabled harnessing the full available NA almost completely, and demonstrating high-resolution focussing with output NAs up to 0.91 through lensless fibres. Further, we show that the NA and pureness of such foci allow stable three-dimensional optical confinement of micrometre-sized dielectric objects. Being inherently holographic, this technique is capable of generating an arbitrary number of optical tweezers, as well as precisely repositioning them independently in all directions. The versatility of the new instrument is demonstrated by simultaneous and dynamic 3D manipulation of large assemblies of dielectric microparticles, as well as manipulation of micro-objects inside optically inaccessible environments such a turbid cavity through an opening as small as 0.1mm. Moreover, the possibility of generating aberration-free foci with NA approaching 0.9 across the fibre core opens new perspectives for high-resolution holographic micro-endoscopy, paving the way for the delivery of advanced microscopy techniques through hair-thin fibre-optic probes.

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Ivo T. Leite, Sergey Turtaev, Xin Jiang, Martin Siler, Philip S. Russell, and Tomáš Čižmár "Holographic optical tweezers at the tip of a multimode fibre (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10886, Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Control for Biological Systems V, 108860M (4 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2510418

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Holography

Multimode fibers

Optical tweezers

Dielectrics

Geometrical optics

Microscopy

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