Optical trap stiffness in the presence and absence of spherical aberrations

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1812-1819

  Vermeulen, Karen C ^a   Wuite, Gijs J L ^a   Stienen, Ger J M ^b   Schmidt, Christoph F ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; POLYSTYRENES; SILICA; STIFFNESS;

NUMERICAL-APERTURE; OPTICAL TRAPS; TRAP STIFFNESS; TRAPPING STRENGTH;

ABERRATIONS;

EID: 33645797632     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.001812     Document Type: Article

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