Quantifying noise in optical tweezers by allan variance

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 13255-13269

  Czerwinski, Fabian ^a   Richardson, Andrew C ^a   Oddershede, Lene B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ALLAN VARIANCE; DETECTION SCHEME; ON THE FLIES; OPTIMAL MEASUREMENTS; OPTIMAL PARAMETER; QUANTIFYING NOISE; SINGLE-MOLECULE ASSAYS;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LASER; LIGHT; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ACOUSTICS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MAGNETICS; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 67749129301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013255     Document Type: Article

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