Colombia in the International Year of Light

Session

Morning Session 2 UN

16 Jun 2015, 11:30

0. Optical Tweezers (B)

16/06/2015, 11:30

Historical aspects and fundamental principles about the mechanical action of light will be recorded and briefly presented. The basics of an optical tweezers experiment will be explained. An important date is 1986 when the use of a highly focused laser beam through a high numerical aperture microscope objective has revolutionized the optical trapping and control of micron or sub-micron sized...