Trapping metallic Rayleigh particles with radial polarization

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3377-3382

  Zhan, Qiwen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LITHOGRAPHY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ABSORPTION FORCES; OPTICAL CONFINEMENT AND MANIPULATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; TRAPPING;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 4644308444     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003377     Document Type: Article

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