Optical tweezers with cylindrical vector beams produced by optical fibers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5514, Issue , 2004, Pages 283-292

  Volpe, Giovanni ^a   Singh, Gajendra P ^a   Petrov, Dmitri ^a,b  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cylindrical vector beam; Laguerre Gaussian mode; Optical fibre; Optical tweezers; Polarization

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEFRONTS;

CYLINDRICAL VECTOR BEAMS; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN MODE; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RADIATION FORCES;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 13244262682     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.557868     Document Type: Conference Paper

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