Theory of trapping forces in optical tweezers

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 459, Issue 2040, 2003, Pages 3021-3041

  Mazolli, A ^a   Maia Neto, P A ^a   Nussenzveig, H M ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mie scattering; Optical traps; Semiclassical limit

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; FORCE; LASER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICS; OSCILLATION; RADIUS; REFRACTION INDEX;

EID: 1542616962     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2003.1164     Document Type: Article

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