Rigorous time domain simulation of momentum transfer between light and microscopic particles in optical trapping

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2220-2230

  Zhang, Dianwen ^a   Yuan, X C ^b   Tjin, S C ^b   Krishnan, S ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LASERS; PHOTONS; REFLECTION; REFRACTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

OPTICAL TRAPPING; OPTICAL VORTEX; RADIATION PRESSURE;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 2942744844     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.002220     Document Type: Article

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