Optimal beam diameter for optical tweezers

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1494-1496

  Samadi, Akbar ^a   Reihani, Nader S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN BASIC SCIENCES IASBS   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; FILLING FACTOR; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; MICRO MANIPULATION; NANO-PARTICLE TRAPPING; OPTICAL TRAP; OPTIMAL BEAMS;

OPTIMIZATION;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

EID: 77954941781     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.001494     Document Type: Article

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