title: Interferometric 3D tracking of several particles in a scanning laser focus.
abstract: High-Speed tracking of several particles allows measuring dynamic long-range interactions relevant to biotechnology and colloidal physics. In this paper we extend the successful technique of 3D back-focal plane interferometry to oscillating laser beams and show that two or more particles can be trapped and tracked with a precision of a few nanometers in all three dimensions. The tracking rate of several kHz is only limited by the scan speed of the beam steering device. Several tests proof the linearity and orthogonality of our detection scheme, which is of interest to optical tweezing applications and various metrologies. As an example we show the position cross-correlations of three diffusing particles in a scanning line optical trap.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Bio- and Nano- Photonics, Department of Microsystems Engineering-IMTEK, University of Freiburg, Georges Köhler Allee 102,79110 Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Speidel
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Friedrich
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rohrbach