Radiation pressure driven mechanical oscillation in deformed silica microspheres via free-space evanescent excitation

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16471-16477

  Park, Young Shin ^a   Wang, Hailin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERES; RADIATION;

EVANESCENT EXCITATION; MECHANICAL OSCILLATION; RADIATION PRESSURE;

SILICA;

EID: 37149050459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016471     Document Type: Article

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