Laser-trapping properties of dual-component spheres

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 33, 2002, Pages 7135-7144

  Gauthier, Robert C ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTONS;

LASER TRAPPING; RAY OPTICS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0037146152     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.007135     Document Type: Article

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