Optical tweezers and fluid characteristics of an optical rotator with slopes on the surface upon which light is incident and a cylindrical body

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2708-2715

  Ukita, Hiroo ^a,b   Nagatomi, Kenji ^a,b  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SANYO ELECTRIC CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DRAG; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHTING; TORQUE MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

OPTICAL ROTATION;

EID: 0042884358     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.002708     Document Type: Article

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