Three-dimensional optical manipulation using four collimated intersecting laser beams

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4921-4928

  Huisken, J ^a   Swoger, J ^a   Stelzer, E H K ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORCE CONTROL; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

ISOTROPIC-RESOLUTION LIGHT MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL FORCES; OPTICAL MANIPULATOR;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 34247180174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004921     Document Type: Article

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