Tapered fiber optical tweezers for microscopic particle trapping: Fabrication and application

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 12510-12516

  Zhihai, Liu ^a   Chengkai, Guo ^a   Jun, Yang ^a   Libo, Yuan ^a  

^a HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PARTICLE TAPPING;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33845448590     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012510     Document Type: Article

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