Size selective trapping with optical "cogwheel" tweezers

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 4129-4135

  Jesacher, Alexander ^a   Fürhapter, Severin ^a   Bernet, Stefan ^a   Ritsch Marte, Monika ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REFRACTION; TOPOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WAVEFRONTS;

AXIAL TRAPPING; COGWHEEL; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; ORBITAL MOMENTUM;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 4644352783     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004129     Document Type: Article

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