Axial optical trapping forces on two particles trapped simultaneously by optical tweezers

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2667-2672

  Xu, Shenghua ^a,b   Li, Yinmei ^a,b   Lou, Liren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; GLASS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT SCATTERING; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

AXIAL OPTICAL TRAPPING; BESSEL BEAMS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; TRAPPING FORCES;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 19944371174     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.002667     Document Type: Article

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