Optical path clearing and enhanced transmission through colloidal suspensions

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 17130-17140

  Baumgartl, J ^a   Cizmar T ^a   Mazilu, M ^a   Chan, V C ^a,c   Carruthers, A E ^a,d   Capron, B A ^b   McNeely, W ^b   Wright, E M ^c   Dholakia, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ANALYTICAL MODEL; COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS; ENHANCED TRANSMISSION; HIGH EFFICIENCY; LASER FIELDS; OPTICAL PATH; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; SCATTERING FORCES; SPATIAL PROFILES; TURBID MEDIUM;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUSPENSION;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; LIGHT; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUSPENSIONS;

EID: 77955629275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.017130     Document Type: Article

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