Stable optical trapping of latex nanoparticles with ultrashort pulsed illumination

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 31, 2009, Pages

  De, Arijit Kumar ^a   Roy, Debjit ^a   Dutta, Aveek ^a   Goswami, Debabrata ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LATEXES; NANOPARTICLES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

3D RESOLUTION; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; GRADIENT FORCE; LATEX NANOPARTICLES; OPTICALTRAPPING; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TWO PHOTON FLUORESCENCE; ULTRA-SHORT PULSED;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

LATEX; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ILLUMINATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

LATEX; LIGHTING; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 70449636009     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000G33     Document Type: Article

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