Publications by Jean-Marc Fournier

Optical Mirror from Laser-Trapped Mesoscopic Particles

Trapping of mesoscopic particles by optical forces usually relies on the gradient force, whereby particles are attracted into optical wells formed by landscaping the intensity of an optical field. This is most often achieved by optical Gaussian beams, inte ...

Amer Physical Soc2014

Comparison between various types of multiple optical tweezers

René Salathé, Fabrice Merenda, Johann Rohner, Jean-Marc Fournier

Many types of optical tweezers arrays have been proposed and developed for use in conjunction with microfluidics for bio-chemical essays. Trap arrays rely on different methods allowing various degrees of flexibility and relative trapping efficiencies. Amon ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2008

Refractive multiple optical tweezers for parallel biochemical analysis in micro-fluidics

René Salathé, Fabrice Merenda, Horst Vogel, Johann Rohner, Jean-Marc Fournier

We present a multiple laser tweezers system based on refractive optics. The system produces an array of 100 optical traps thanks to a refractive microlens array, whose focal plane is imaged into the focal plane of a high-NA microscope objective. This refra ...

2007

Micro-optics for optical trapping in microfluidics - art. no. 66440P

René Salathé, Fabrice Merenda, Johann Rohner, Jean-Marc Fournier, Elodie Lamothe

Micro-optical compo nents offer several possibilities for creating large matrices of optical traps, either when working on inverted microscopes, or by directly integrating miniaturized optical components at the level of a micro-fluidic chip. In thisarticle ...

2007

Statistical study of optical trapping efficiency

Olivier Martin, René Salathé, Johann Rohner, Lina Huang, Jean-Marc Fournier

2007

Multiple optical trapping in high gradient interference fringes

René Salathé, Fabrice Merenda, Johann Rohner, Jean-Marc Fournier

In biological investigations, many protocols using optical trapping call for the possibility to trap a large number of particles simultaneously. Interference fringes provide a solution for massively parallel micro-manipulation of mesoscopic objects. Concur ...

2006