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. 2013 Apr 29;8(4):e61630. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061630

Figure 2. Optical trap layout.

Figure 2

A trapping beam (1064 nm) is expanded by a lens in order to overfill the input pupil of the trapping objective, O1, and, hence, increase the trapping force. The position of a trapped object is detected by monitoring the spatial distribution of the trapping beam scattered by the object. This scattered light is collected by an objective, O2, and projected into a quadrant-position detector (QPD).