Optical vortices for localized optical lattice site manipulation

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Schonbrun, Ethan ^a   Piestun, Rafael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer generated holograms; Holographic lithography; Interference; Optical lattices; Optical vortices; Wavefront dislocations

Indexed keywords

HOLOGRAMS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LITHOGRAPHY; PHASE MODULATION; WAVEFRONTS;

HOLOGRAPHIC LITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL LATTICES; OPTICAL VORTICES;

COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY;

EID: 33748626505     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2172930     Document Type: Article

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