Significant improvement of optical traps by tuning standard water immersion objectives

Journal of Optics

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Reihani, S Nader S ^a,b   Mir, Shahid A ^a   Richardson, Andrew C ^a   Oddershede, Lene B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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

Author keywords

aberration; infrared laser; optical trapping; trap efficiency; water immersion objective

Indexed keywords

INFRARED LASERS;

BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE; OPTICALTRAPPING; PHYSICAL THICKNESS; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; WATER IMMERSION;

ABERRATIONS;

EID: 80053925632     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/13/10/105301     Document Type: Article

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