Measurement of axial and transverse trapping stiffness of optical tweezers in air using a radially polarized beam

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 6143-6151

  Michihata, Masaki ^a   Hayashi, Terutake ^a   Takaya, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLARIZATION; RAY TRACING; STIFFNESS;

LINEAR POLARIZATION; MEASUREMENT METHODS; NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; RADIAL POLARIZATION; RADIALLY POLARIZED BEAM; TRANSVERSE STIFFNESS; TRAPPING EFFICIENCIES; TRAPPING PROPERTIES;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; REFRACTOMETRY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANISOTROPY; ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; REFRACTOMETRY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 73349129965     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.006143     Document Type: Article

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