Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical microstructure for fiber optical tweezers
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Application No.: US17319441Application Date: 2021-05-13
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Publication No.: US11886011B2Publication Date: 2024-01-30
- Inventor: Carlo Liberale , Andrea Bertoncini , Innem Venkata Anudeep Kumar Reddy
- Applicant: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Applicant Address: SA Thuwal
- Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee Address: SA Thuwal
- Agency: PATENT PORTFOLIO BUILDERS PLLC
- Main IPC: G02B6/26
- IPC: G02B6/26 ; F21V8/00 ; G21K1/00 ; G02B21/32

Abstract:
An optical microstructure is configured to work with an optical fiber or a different substrate and the optical microstructure includes a beam converter including a tapered optical guide configured to transform a gaussian optical beam into a first annular optical beam; an inverted cone having first and second reflection surfaces, each configured to reflect the first annular optical beam, having a radius R1, so that a resulting second annular optical beam has a radius R2 larger than the radius R1; and a prism having a reflection surface configured to reflect the second annular optical beam to form a third converging annular optical beam. The third converging annular optical beam includes plural single optical beams that intersect at a given crossing point, outside the optical microstructure. The plural single optical beams form an optical trap.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210364700A1 OPTICAL MICROSTRUCTURE FOR FIBER OPTICAL TWEEZERS Public/Granted day:2021-11-25
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