Twin-core fiber optical tweezers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 4559-4566

  Yuan, Libo ^a   Liu, Zhihai ^a   Yang, Jun ^a   Guan, Chunying ^a  

^a HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; FIBERS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

PARTICLE TRAPPING; TWIN-CORE FIBERS;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

EID: 49849091247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.004559     Document Type: Article

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