Calibration of optical tweezers with positional detection in the back-focal-plane

Details Calibration of optical tweezers with positional detection in the back-focal-plane Calibration of optical tweezers with positional detection in the back-focal-plane

2006-03-06

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0603037v2

Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 103101 (2006) (11 pages)

Physics

Biological Physics

Submitted to: Review of Scientific Instruments. 13 pages, 5 figures. Appendix added (hydrodynamically correct calibration)

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2356852

We explain and demonstrate a new method of force- and position-calibration for optical tweezers with back-focal-plane photo detection. The method combines power spectral measurements of thermal motion and the response to a sinusoidal motion of a translation stage. It consequently does not use the drag coefficient of the trapped ob ject as an input. Thus, neither the viscosity, nor the size of the trapped ob ject, nor its distance to nearby surfaces need to be known. The method requires only a low level of instrumentation and can be applied in situ in all spatial dimensions. It is both accurate and precise: true values are returned, with small error-bars. We tested this experimentally, near and far from surfaces. Both position- and force-calibration were accurate to within 3%. To calibrate, we moved the sample with a piezo-electric translation stage, but the laser beam could be moved instead, e.g. by acousto-optic deflectors. Near surfaces, this precision requires an improved formula for the hydrodynamical interaction between an infinite plane and a micro-sphere in non-constant motion parallel to it. We give such a formula.

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