Optical trapping of spermatozoa using Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes

Dasgupta, Raktim ; Ahlawat, Sunita ; Verma, Ravi Shanker ; Shukla, Sunita ; Gupta, Pradeep Kumar (2010) Optical trapping of spermatozoa using Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes Journal of Biomedical Optics, 15 (6). 065010-065010. ISSN 1083-3668

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Abstract

We report results of a study on the use of Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes for optical trapping of spermatozoa. The results show that for a given trap beam power the first-order LG mode (LG01) leads to lower photodamage to the cells without compromising the trapping efficiency.

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