Optical levitation measurements with intensity-modulated light beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 30, 1997, Pages 7860-7863

  Cai, Weiquan ^a   Li, Fusheng ^a   Sun, Shundi ^a   Wang, Yuzhu ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Intensity modulated beam; Optical levitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542394614     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.007860     Document Type: Article

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