Three-dimensional tracking of Brownian motion of a particle trapped in optical tweezers with a pair of orthogonal tracking beams and the determination of the associated optical force constants

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5798-5806

  Wei, Ming Tzo ^a   Chiou, Arthur ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; PHOTODIODES; SILICA;

BEAM TRACKING; OPTICAL FORCE CONSTANTS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; QUANTITATIVE MAPPING;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

EID: 23744449381     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005798     Document Type: Article

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