Adiabatic submicrometric tapers for optical tweezers

Electronics Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 204-206

  Brambilla, G ^a   Xu, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

ADIABATIC SUBMICROMETRIC TAPERS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; TRAPPING POWERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33847155054     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20073709     Document Type: Article

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