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When an optical trap is placed close to a microparticle, it
pulls the particle towards the focal point. The images above captured using
the imaging device in the optical tweezers system show a microparticle
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"DETC2012-71236: Using GPUs for Realtime Prediction of Optical Forces on Microsphere Ensembles," a paper by Computer Science graduate student Sujal Bista, Mechanical Engineering graduate student Sagar Chowdhury, Professor S.K. Gupta (ME/ISR), and UMIACS Director Amitabh Varshney (CS/UMIACS), was one of two ?best of conference? papers at the 2012 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Chowdhury is advised by Professor Gupta, and Bista is advised by Professor Varshney.
Laser beams can be used to create optical traps that can hold and transport small particles. Optical trapping has been used in a number of applications ranging from prototyping at the microscale to biological cell manipulation. Successfully using optical tweezers requires predicting optical forces on the particle being trapped and transported. The paper introduces a ray-tracing-based application optimized for GPUs to calculate forces exerted by laser beams on microparticle ensembles in an optical tweezers system.
| Read the prize-winning paper |
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