Optical levitation particle delivery system for a dual beam fiber optic trap

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 26-33

  Gauthier, Robert C ^a   Frangioudakis, Athanasios ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0002469467     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.000026     Document Type: Article

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