Localized vibrational modes in optically bound structures

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 2583-2585

  Ng, Jack ^a   Chan, C T ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL LIGHT SOURCE; OPTICAL BINDING; OPTICALLY BOUND STRUCTURES; VIBRATIONAL MODES;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON TRAPS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; LIGHT SOURCES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

LATTICE VIBRATIONS;

EID: 33750533391     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.002583     Document Type: Article

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