Simultaneous calibration of optical tweezers spring constant and position detector response

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 26469-26474

  Le Gall, Antoine ^a   Perronet, Karen ^a   Dulin, David ^a   Villing, André ^a   Bouyer, Philippe ^a   Visscher, Koen ^a,b   Westbrook, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

BACK FOCAL PLANES; CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; DIRECT CALIBRATION METHOD; PARTICLE POSITION DETECTION; POSITION DETECTOR; SIMULTANEOUS CALIBRATION; SPRING CONSTANTS; TEMPORAL RESPONSE; TRAPPED PARTICLE;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; STANDARD; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; INTERNATIONALITY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 78650061670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026469     Document Type: Article

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