Use of tethering for axial confinement in optical tweezers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5514, Issue , 2004, Pages 467-474

  Cronin Golomb, Mark ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Optical trapping; Optical tweezers; Sensors

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; NUMERICAL APERTURE; OPTICAL TRAPPING; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOPOLYMERS; DNA; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LIGHT; POLYSTYRENES; RHEOLOGY; SENSORS;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 13244291388     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.558203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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