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Abstract
Fiber optical tweezers (FOTs) provide a functionality for micro-/nanoparticle manipulation with a slim and flexible optical fiber setup. An added in situ spectroscopic functionality can achieve characterization of the trapped particle, potentially useful for endoscopic, in-vivo studies in an inherently heterogeneous environment if the applicator end is all-fiber-built. Here, we demonstrate all-fiber optical tweezers (a-FOTs) for the trapping and in situ spectral measurement of a single, cell-sized microparticle. The key to ensure the simultaneous bifunctionality is a high numerical aperture (NA) Fresnel lens fabricated by two-photon direct laser writing (DLW) corrected by grid-correction methods. We demonstrate trapping and time-resolved, in situ spectroscopy of a single upconversion particle (UCP), a common fluorescent biomarker in biophotonics. The system achieves a 0.5-s time resolution in the in situ spectral measurement of a trapped UCP. The all-fiber designed system preserves the advantages of flexibility and robustness of the fiber, potentially useful for in-vivo biomedical studies such as cell-to-cell interactions, pH and temperature detection, and nucleic acids detection.
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