Optical conveyor belt for delivery of submicron objects

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Čižmár, Tomáš ^a   Garćs Chávez, Veneranda ^b   Dholakia, Kishan ^b   Zemánek, Pavel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; ELECTRON TRAPS; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROMETERS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHASE SHIFT; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

GRADIENT FORCE; OPTICAL DIPOLE; SLIDING GAUSSIAN STANDING WAVE (SGSW); STANDING WAVE (SW);

BELT CONVEYORS;

EID: 20844445599     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1915543     Document Type: Article

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