Measuring microscopic viscosity with optical tweezers as a confocal probe

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1820-1832

  Nemet, Boaz A ^a   Cronin Golomb, Mark ^a,b  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISCOSITY;

MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; VISCOSITY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL DETECTION; VISCOSITY;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS; SCANNING PHOTONIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037799482     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.001820     Document Type: Article

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