Measuring the complete force field of an optical trap

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1260-1262

  Jahnel, Marcus ^a,b   Behrndt, Martin ^a,d   Jannasch, Anita ^c   Schäffer, Erik ^c   Grill, Stephan W ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK FOCAL PLANES; DISPLACEMENT RESPONSE; DUAL-BEAM; FORCE FIELDS; LASER INTENSITIES; LINEAR DETECTION; LINEAR REGIME; MICROSPHERE SIZES; MIE THEORY; MOLECULAR LEVELS; NONLINEAR FORCE; OPTICAL TRAP; PHOTO DETECTION; TRAP CENTER; TRAPPING FORCES; TWO-DIMENSION;

MICROSPHERES;

MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; LASER; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

LASERS; MICROSPHERES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

EID: 79956131516     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.001260     Document Type: Article

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