Optical trapping and fluorescence excitation with violet diode lasers and extended cavity surface emitting lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 670-678

  Lake, Tanya K ^a   Carruthers, Antonia E ^a   Paterson, Lynn ^a   Taylor, Margaret ^a   Gunn Moore, Frank ^a   Allen, John W ^a   Sibbett, Wilson ^a   Dholakia, Kishan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DNA; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; POLYMERS; PROTEINS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS (CFP); OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PROTEIN DYNAMICS; VIOLET DIODE LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 2942748465     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.000670     Document Type: Article

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