Independent polarisation control of multiple optical traps

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 15897-15902

  Preece, Daryl ^a   Keen, Stephen ^a   Botvinick, Elliot ^b   Bowman, Richard ^a,c   Padgett, Miles ^a   Leach, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; POLARIZATION;

HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OPTICAL TRAP; PHASE DIFFERENCE; POLARISATION STATE; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; SPATIAL LOCATION; SPIN ANGULAR MOMENTUM; VATERITE;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE REFRACTION; HOLOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OPTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OPTICS; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

EID: 54749146395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015897     Document Type: Article

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