Analytical prediction of stable optical trapping in optical vortices created by three TE or TM plane waves

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 8010-8020

  Grzegorczyk, Tomasz M ^a   Kong, Jin Au ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

OPTICAL LATTICE; PLANE WAVES;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 34347241755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008010     Document Type: Article

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