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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 17.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Opt. 2009 Nov 10;48(32):6344–6354. doi: 10.1364/AO.48.006344

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

(Color online) Layout of the near-infrared optical stretcher. Nd-YAG laser light is fiber-optic coupled into two single mode fibers by a 50:50 beam splitter (BS). The image shows an osteoblast-like cell that is trapped in the stretcher. The fiber separation is 150 µm, and the scale bar is 20 µm.