Radiation-pressure-based cylindrically shaped microactuator capable of smooth, continuous, reversible, and stepped rotation

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 4850-4860

  Gauthier, Robert C ^a   Ashman, Mike ^a   Frangioudakis, Athanasios ^a   Mende, Howie ^a   Ma, Shanjun ^a,b  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 0011820490     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004850     Document Type: Article

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