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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of the European Optical Society : Rapid publications Année : 2023

Accurate calibration of optical tweezers close to a glass surface using interference rings in backscattered light

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Mechanical forces play an important role in the behaviour of cells, from differentiation to migration and the development of diseases. Optical tweezers provide a quantitative tool to study these forces and must be combined with other tools, such as phase contrast and fluorescence microscopy. Detecting the retro-reflected trap beam is a convenient way to monitor the force applied by optical tweezers, while freeing top access to the sample. Accurate in situ calibration is required especially for single cells close to a surface where viscosity varies rapidly with height. Here, we take advantage of the well contrasted interference rings in the back focal plane of the objective to find the height of a trapped bead above a cover slip. We thus map the viscous drag dependence close to the surface and find agreement between four different measurement techniques for the trap stiffness down to 2 lm above the surface. Combining this detection scheme with phase contrast microscopy, we show that the phase ring in the back focal plane of the objective must be deported in a conjugate plane on the imaging path. This simplifies implementation of optical tweezers in combination with other techniques for biomechanical studies.
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hal-04107235 , version 1 (02-06-2023)

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Flavie Gillant, Julien Moreau, Maximilian U Richly, Antigoni Alexandrou, Karen Perronet, et al.. Accurate calibration of optical tweezers close to a glass surface using interference rings in backscattered light. Journal of the European Optical Society : Rapid publications, 2023, 19, ⟨10.1051/jeos/2023026⟩. ⟨hal-04107235⟩
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