Towards absolute calibration of optical tweezers

NB Viana, MS Rocha, ON Mesquita, A Mazolli… - Physical Review E …, 2007 - APS
… Aiming at absolute force calibration of optical tweezers, following a critical review of
proposed theoretical models, we present and test the results of Mie-Debye-spherical aberration …

Absolute calibration of forces in optical tweezers

RS Dutra, NB Viana, PA Maia Neto, HM Nussenzveig - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
… In the present work, we demonstrate an absolute calibration of stiffness, based on a careful
control of all relevant trap parameters [12] and on an accurate realistic theory of the trapping …

Absolute calibration of optical tweezers

NB Viana, A Mazolli, M Neto, HM Nussenzveig… - Applied physics …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Optical tweezers have become very important tools in molecular cell biology … calibrated
indirectly, by comparison with Stokes-like forces in fluid flow. Here we aim at absolute calibration

[HTML][HTML] Calibration of force detection for arbitrarily shaped particles in optical tweezers

AAM Bui, AV Kashchuk, MA Balanant, TA Nieminen… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
… Unlike the absolute calibration of the force and position detectors, the force–… absolute
calibration by measuring optical forces on microspheres as commonly trapped in optical tweezers, …

Exact theory of optical tweezers and its application to absolute calibration

RS Dutra, NB Viana, PAM Neto… - Optical Tweezers …, 2017 - Springer
… We outline the theory of absolute calibration as it was developed by successive approximations,
incorporating new features as their needs were recognized. The first attempt was for the …

Optical tweezers—from calibration to applications: a tutorial

J Gieseler, JR Gomez-Solano, A Magazzù… - Advances in Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
… In this tutorial, we provide a primer on how to calibrate optical tweezers and how to use …
on optical tweezers, we focus on describing and comparing the various available calibration

Optimizing active and passive calibration of optical tweezers

M Andersson, F Czerwinski, LB Oddershede - Journal of Optics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
… Optimized protocol for calibration of optical tweezers setups … present in an optical tweezers
assay, we suggest an optimized protocol for optical trapping calibration that combines power …

Optical tweezers absolute calibration

RS Dutra, NB Viana, PA Neto… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2014 - arxiv.org
… more useful guidelines for typical optical tweezers setups. The … is that absolute calibration of
optical tweezers has finally been … a short guide to the implementation of absolute calibration. …

New calibration method for position detector for simultaneous measurements of force constants and local viscosity in optical tweezers

A Buosciolo, G Pesce, A Sasso - Optics communications, 2004 - Elsevier
calibrate a quadrant photodiode used as position detector to monitor latex beads trapped in
optical tweezers. … Position detector calibrations used in other similar methods normally utilise …

[HTML][HTML] Calibration of optical tweezers for in vivo force measurements: how do different approaches compare?

Y Jun, SK Tripathy, BRJ Narayanareddy… - Biophysical journal, 2014 - cell.com
… ), optical tweezers/optical traps (OTs) are a useful tool for manipulating microscopic objects
using light … Calibration of optical tweezers with positional detection in the back focal plane. …