Optical trapping of micrometer-sized dielectric particles by cylindrical vector beams

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 10828-10833

  Kozawa, Yuichi ^a   Sato, Shunichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; POLARIZATION; POLYSTYRENES;

AXIAL DIRECTION; CYLINDRICAL VECTOR BEAM; DIELECTRIC PARTICLES; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; OPTICALTRAPPING; P-POLARIZATION; PARTICLE SURFACE; POLARIZED BEAMS; POLYSTYRENE BEADS; RADIAL POLARIZATION; RADIALLY POLARIZED BEAM; SINGLE-BEAM; TRANSVERSE OPTICAL; TRAPPING EFFICIENCIES;

MICROMETERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PARTICLE SIZE; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77952739516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010828     Document Type: Article

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