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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2017
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of Commerce, Washington, DC (US);
John J. Curry, Frederick, MD (US);
Zachary H. Levine, Rockville, MD (US);
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A process for optically sorting a plurality of particles includes: providing a particle receiver; producing particles; receiving the particles by the particle receiver; receiving a light by the particle receiver; producing a standing wave optical interference pattern in an optical interference site of the particle receiver from the light; subjecting the particles to an optical gradient force from the standing wave optical interference pattern; deflecting the particles into a plurality of deflected paths to form the sorted particles from the particles; and propagating the sorted particles from the optical interference site through the deflected paths to optically sort the particles.