Design for fully steerable dual-trap optical tweezers

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2107-2113

  Fälllman, Erik ^a   Axner, Ove ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Dual trap; Micromanipulation; Optical tweezers

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LASERS; MICROSCOPES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BEAM STEERING; DUAL TRAP; MICROMANIPULATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0031120575     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.002107     Document Type: Article

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