ABSTRACT

Tractor Beams and Bacteria
Stanley Allen and Chris Hansen, Southern Adventist University

This talk will report on undergraduate research in optical trapping with hopeful applications to bacterial study. We will follow-up on earlier research which included basic apparatus assembly and attempted trapping. Since our last report, we have improved our apparatus and reproducibly trapped small spheres in solution. Calculations of our trapping force are encouraging and we hope to soon trap and study bacteria.