Enhanced optical guiding of colloidal particles using a supercontinuum light source

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 5792-5802

  Fischer, P ^a   Carruthers, A E ^a   Volke Sepulveda, K ^b   Wright, E M ^a,c   Brown, C T A ^a   Sibbett, W ^a   Dholakia, K ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CELLS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; LASERS; LIGHT; MONOCHROMATORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; RADIATION;

AXIAL RADIATION PRESSURE FORCE; BIOLOGICAL CELLS; COLLOIDAL PARTICLES; FEMTOSECOND LASER SOURCES; MONOCHROMATIC GAUSSIAN BEAM; OPTICAL GUIDING; RADIAL GRADIENT FORCE; SUPERCONTINUUM LIGHT SOURCE;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 33745171486     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.005792     Document Type: Article

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