Light-driven micromanipulator and its application for 3D fabrications

Yukitoshi Otani; Yuji Hirai; Yasuhiro Mizutani; Norihiro Umeda; Toru Yoshizawa

doi:10.1117/12.689277

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19 October 2006 Light-driven micromanipulator and its application for 3D fabrications

Yukitoshi Otani, Yuji Hirai, Yasuhiro Mizutani, Norihiro Umeda, Toru Yoshizawa

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Proceedings Volume 6374, Optomechatronic Actuators, Manipulation, and Systems Control; 63740N (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.689277
Event: Optics East 2006, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Abstract

An optical actuator has some interesting characteristics, such as no generation of magnetic noise and receiving the energy remotely. A novel micromanipulator by photothermal effect is proposed. It consists of three optical fiber cantilevers. One end of the fiber is cut for a bevel and painted with black color. A photothermal effect is occurred responding to the incident beam at the end of the optical fiber. It can manipulate a sample and move it in the arbitrary place in 3D space. We succeed to fabricate the 3D structures.

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Yukitoshi Otani, Yuji Hirai, Yasuhiro Mizutani, Norihiro Umeda, and Toru Yoshizawa "Light-driven micromanipulator and its application for 3D fabrications", Proc. SPIE 6374, Optomechatronic Actuators, Manipulation, and Systems Control, 63740N (19 October 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.689277

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