{"id":118,"date":"2018-06-03T17:30:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T21:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2018-06-03T18:28:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T22:28:57","slug":"optical-tweezers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/research\/optical-tweezers\/","title":{"rendered":"Optical Tweezers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Advanced Lab Final Project<\/h3>\n<h3>Advised by:\u00a0 Professor Charles Crowder and Professor Joseph Kozminski<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/files\/2018\/06\/OpticalTweezers_Test.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-119 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/files\/2018\/06\/OpticalTweezers_Test-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/files\/2018\/06\/OpticalTweezers_Test-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/files\/2018\/06\/OpticalTweezers_Test-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/files\/2018\/06\/OpticalTweezers_Test-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/files\/2018\/06\/OpticalTweezers_Test-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/files\/2018\/06\/OpticalTweezers_Test.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>An optical tweezer, uses a laser beam to trap and manipulate microscopic particles. For our final project, my partner and I designed, built, and tested an operational optical trap based on equipment readily available in the physics department. As part of the project, we also developed an experiment to examine the trapping strength.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/files\/2018\/06\/Optical-Tweezer-Poster-ALPhA1.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-150\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/files\/2018\/06\/Optical-Tweezer-Poster-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/files\/2018\/06\/Optical-Tweezer-Poster-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/files\/2018\/06\/Optical-Tweezer-Poster-768x658.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/files\/2018\/06\/Optical-Tweezer-Poster-1024x878.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/files\/2018\/06\/Optical-Tweezer-Poster-350x300.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced Lab Final Project Advised by:\u00a0 Professor Charles Crowder and Professor Joseph Kozminski An optical tweezer, uses a laser beam to trap and manipulate microscopic particles. For our final project, my partner and I designed, built, and tested an operational &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/research\/optical-tweezers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2298,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/152"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/elizabeth-louden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}