Optical tweezers with tips grown at the end of fibers by photopolymerization

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2880-2883

  Valkai, Sándor ^a   Oroszi, László ^a   Ormos, Pál ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION;

COUNTERPROPAGATING; GOOD OPTICAL QUALITY; OPTICAL TRAP; SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBER; WRITING PROCESS;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

GLASS FIBER; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; POLYMERS;

EID: 67249136521     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002880     Document Type: Article

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