We demonstrate the trapping of beads in water with a microfabricated Fresnel zone plate. Beads are loaded onto the microfabricated optical traps using conventional optical tweezers and fluorescence microscopy is used to track bead position. Analysis of the bead position as a function of time is used to determine trapping stiffness. We present experiments showing the three-dimensional trapping of diameter beads with trapping stiffnesses that are comparable to conventional optical tweezers when the zone plate efficiency is taken into account.
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