Stable trapping and manually controlled rotation of an asymmetric or birefringent microparticle using dual-mode split-beam optical tweezers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14724-14729

  Sheu, Fang Wen ^a   Lan, Tzu Kai ^a   Lin, Yu Chung ^a   Chen, Shiung ^a   Ay, Chyung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER BEAMS;

GAUSSIAN LASER BEAM; LINEARLY POLARIZED; MICRO PARTICLES; OPTICAL AXIS; PRINCIPAL AXES; RED BLOOD CELL; SINGLE MODE LASER BEAMS; TILTING ANGLE;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

EID: 84859111209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014724     Document Type: Article

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