Optical levitation and translation of a microscopic particle by use of multiple beams generated by vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser array sources

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 27, 2002, Pages 5645-5654

  Ogura, Yusuke ^a   Shirai, Nobuhiro ^a   Tanida, Jun ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHTING; PARTICLE OPTICS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

OPTICAL LEVITATION; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS (VCSEL);

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0037144824     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.005645     Document Type: Article

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