The pull of the tractor beam

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 12-13

  Wilk, Stephen R ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 73449141111     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
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