Rotation of birefringent particles in optical tweezers with spherical aberration

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 4397-4402

  Zhong, Min Cheng ^a   Zhou, Jin Hua ^a   Ren, Yu Xuan ^a   Li, Yin Mei ^a,b   Wang, Zi Qiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ASPHERICS; BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; ROTATION; SPHERES;

ELLIPTICALLY POLARIZED LIGHT; FINITE DISTANCE; GLASS-WATER INTERFACE; OIL IMMERSION OBJECTIVE; ROTATION RATE; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

EID: 68749100870     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.004397     Document Type: Article

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