Optical forces between dielectric nanoparticles in an optical vortex

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5736, Issue , 2005, Pages 87-95

  Bradshaw, David S ^a   Andrews, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Laguerre Gaussian; Nanoparticles; Optical forces; Optical tweezers; Optical vortices; Quantum electrodynamics; Twisted beams

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; VORTEX FLOW;

LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN; OPTICAL FORCES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OPTICAL VORTICES; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; TWISTED BEAMS;

DIELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 21844473244     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.590289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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