Optical trapping of gold nanoparticles using a radially polarized laser beam

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8097, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Huss, Anja ^a   Chizhik, Anna M ^a   Jäger, Regina ^a   Chizhik, Alexey I ^a   Meixner, Alfred J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Cylindrical vector Beams; Gold nanoparticles; Optical trapping; Radially polarized laser beam

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM SURFACES; CHARGED POLYMERS; COMPLEX INTERACTION; CYLINDRICAL VECTOR BEAM; ELECTROSTATIC REPULSION; FOCAL AREA; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURE OBJECTIVE; LONGITUDINAL COMPONENTS; NEW RESULTS; OPTICAL MANIPULATION; OPTICALTRAPPING; RADIALLY POLARIZED LASER BEAM; STABLE TRAPS; TRAPPING LASER;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); GOLD; MICROMANIPULATORS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 80054067486     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.893959     Document Type: Conference Paper

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