Optical traps as force transducers: the effects of focusing the trapping beam through a dielectric interface

Langmuir

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2770-2778

  Dogariu, Aristide C ^a   Rajagopalan, Raj ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FORCE MEASUREMENT; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LASER BEAM EFFECTS; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TRANSDUCERS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; FORCE TRANSDUCERS; OPTICAL TRAPS; WAVE OPTICS CALCULATION;

ELECTRON TRAPS;

EID: 0033898637     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la9904004     Document Type: Article

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