Fresnel-focusing and bessel-beam integrated optical phased arrays for optical trapping applications

Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017.

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Main Author: Notaros, Jelena
Other Authors: Michael R. Watts.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112046
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spelling mit-1721.1/1120462019-04-10T11:42:36Z Fresnel-focusing and bessel-beam integrated optical phased arrays for optical trapping applications Notaros, Jelena Michael R. Watts. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-112). Optical trapping and tweezing - the manipulation of particles using optical forces - enables direct interaction with biological samples and non-invasive monitoring of their properties. As such, optical trapping has become a common tool in biology with applications ranging from better understanding of DNA mechanics to non-invasive manipulation of red blood cells in vivo. While optical trapping using bulk optics is a well established technique, recent work has turned towards chip-based optical trapping using integrated devices. However, many of these integrated systems are fundamentally limited to passive demonstrations within microns of the chip surface. Integrated optical phased arrays, which manipulate and dynamically steer light, provide one possible approach to scaling and arbitrary tweezing of optical traps. However, current on-chip optical phased array demonstrations have focused on systems which form and steer beams or project arbitrary radiation patterns in the far field. In this thesis, Fresnel-lens-inspired focusing integrated optical phased arrays are demonstrated for the first time and proposed as a method for chip-based optical trapping. These systems focus radiated light to tightly-confined spots in the near field above the chip to enable applications in wide-angle trapping at millimeter scales. Furthermore, integrated optical phased arrays are proposed and demonstrated for the first time as a method for generating quasi-Bessel beams in a fully-integrated, compact-form-factor system. Through generation of quasi-Bessel beams with elongated properties, these devices have potential for applications in multi-particle, multi-plane optical trapping. To enable these phased array systems, a suite of integrated nanophotonic architectures and devices for waveguiding, coupling, routing, phase control, and radiation are developed, simulated, fabricated, and tested and a CMOS-compatible foundry platform is leveraged for natural scaling to active demonstrations. by Jelena Notaros. S.M. 2017-10-30T15:29:08Z 2017-10-30T15:29:08Z 2017 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112046 1006506697 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 112 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
spellingShingle Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Notaros, Jelena
Fresnel-focusing and bessel-beam integrated optical phased arrays for optical trapping applications
title Fresnel-focusing and bessel-beam integrated optical phased arrays for optical trapping applications
title_full Fresnel-focusing and bessel-beam integrated optical phased arrays for optical trapping applications
title_fullStr Fresnel-focusing and bessel-beam integrated optical phased arrays for optical trapping applications
title_full_unstemmed Fresnel-focusing and bessel-beam integrated optical phased arrays for optical trapping applications
title_short Fresnel-focusing and bessel-beam integrated optical phased arrays for optical trapping applications
title_sort fresnel focusing and bessel beam integrated optical phased arrays for optical trapping applications
topic Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112046
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