Investigation of inclined dual-fiber optical tweezers for 3D manipulation and force sensing

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13624-13638

  Liu, Yuxiang ^a   Yu, Miao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

AXIS MISALIGNMENTS; COUNTERPROPAGATING; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP SYSTEMS; MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEM; MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TRAPPING EFFICIENCIES;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROMANIPULATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; MICROMANIPULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 68349157498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013624     Document Type: Article

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