The optical stretcher: a novel laser tool to micromanipulate cells.

By Jochen R. Guck, R. Ananthakrishnan, Hamida Mahmood, T. Moon, Casey C. Cunningham, J. Käs. Biophysical Journal, 2001

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Colloquium: Momentum of an electromagnetic wave in dielectric media (2007, background): “For a deformable particle, for example in an optical stretcher (Guck et al., 2001), one needs to include the mechanical elastic forces that resist the field or medium forces acting to deform the particle, as well as the field or medium forces themselves.”
The biomechanics toolbox: experimental approaches for living cells and biomolecules (2003, background): “have shown that these requirements are met, and strains of 160% are attainable, for (procaryotic) RBCs and (eucaryotic) PC12 cells and neutrophils [11,75-82], and Moore et al.”
Connections between single-cell biomechanics and human disease states: gastrointestinal cancer and malaria. (2005, background): “Descriptions of these techniques can be found in recent reviews [2,5,11–17].”
In Situ Single Cell Mechanics Characterization of Yeast Cells Using Nanoneedles Inside Environmental SEM (2008, neutral): “microplate manipulators, and optical stretchers [5], [6].”
Optical macro-tweezers: trapping of highly motile micro-organisms (2011, background): “In fiber-optical traps [24], sometimes called optical stretchers [25], one can achieve a stable trapping position where the scattering forces of the counter-propagating beams cancel.”
Review on Cell Mechanics: Experimental and Modeling Approaches (2013, background): “Two-dimensional trapping can be achieved by using a single-beam fiber, while three-dimensional trapping requires two fibers [211].”
Multiple optical trapping and binding: new routes to self-assembly (2010, methodology): “This has led to the confinement of large cells: the dual beam system has proven interesting for combining trapping with other methods such as optical stretching and Raman spectroscopy [34, 35].”
Optical deformability as an inherent cell marker for testing malignant transformation and metastatic competence. (2005, methodology): “The optical stretcher has been described previously as a twobeam laser trap that induces optical forces, which can be used to deform cells (Guck et al., 2001).”