Mode switching of an optical motor

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 4850-4852

  Harada, Takahiro ^a   Yoshikawa, Kenichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; IRRADIATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOTORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS;

OPTICAL MOTORS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0037449292     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1527235     Document Type: Article

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