Abstract
Understanding and controlling the mechanics of fluids on the microscopic scale is important both from a basic research standpoint and for industrial applications. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the field of microfluidics. Microfabricated devices such as micro-channels, valves and pumps will be used in basic biological research, from sample mixing to DNA sequencing and PCR (see for example1,2 and references therein). As the technology of microfluidic systems matures, there will be a growing need for quantitative diagnostic techniques to measure microscopic flow fields and other fluid properties such as viscosity. The technique presented in this paper answers some of these needs and demonstrates the potential for obtaining micron-resolution three-dimensional maps of fluid velocity with a simultaneous viscosity map.
© 2002 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Stephen A. Boppart, Adam Zysk, Alex Schaefer, Josh Reynolds, Daniel Marks, Michal Balberg, and Lutgarde Raskin
CThI6 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 2002
James Cooper, Rance Solomon, Samuel Elrod, Taylor Barnes, Cameron Crawford, Anthony Farone, Mary Farone, and Daniel Erenso
87970H European Conference on Biomedical Optics (ECBO) 2013
M.P. MacDonald, L. Paterson, J. Arlt, W. Sibbett, K. Dholakia, and K. Volke-Sepulveda
CFC3 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 2002