Optical Trapping
published by
the Simon Fraser University Department of Physics
Designed for a fourth-year biological physics laboratory, Phys 433, at Simon Fraser University. Contact Nancy Forde (nforde@sfu.ca) or John Bechhoefer (johnb@sfu.ca) for further information.
OBJECTIVES • Learn the physics behind how an optical trap works • Apply different techniques to determine the stiffness of an optical trap • Learn about how thermal fluctuations impact a bead's motion, and how an optical trap attenuates the bead's motion at certain frequencies • Determine how experimental variables can be used to change the stiffness of an optical trap • Learn how power spectral analysis can be used to determine the rotation frequency of E. coli
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