Conical diffraction of linearly polarised light controls the angular position of a microscopic object

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 27319-27326

  O'Dwyer, D P ^a   Phelan, C F ^a   Ballantine, K E ^a   Rakovich, Y P ^a   Lunney, J G ^a   Donegan, J F ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; POLARIZATION;

ANGULAR POSITIONS; BIAXIAL CRYSTAL; BIOLOGICAL OBJECTS; CONICAL DIFFRACTION; CONTINUOUS MOTIONS; INTENSITY PROFILES; INTERFEROMETERIC; LIGHT CONTROL; MICROSCOPIC OBJECTS; NANO SCALE; OPTICAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; OPTICAL PROCESS; POLARISATION; SHAPED BEAM; WHITE BLOOD CELLS;

BLOOD;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MICROMANIPULATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

CELLS, CULTURED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; LIGHT; MICROMANIPULATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 78650550627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.027319     Document Type: Article

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