Optical forces on submicron particles induced by full Poincaré beams

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 20814-20826

  Wang, Li Gang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ABSORBING DIELECTRICS; DIFFERENT ORDER; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTICAL FORCE; POINCARE; RAYLEIGH PARTICLE; SCATTERING FORCES; SUB-MICRON PARTICLES; SUBMICRON; TRAPPING EFFECTS; VORTEX FORCE;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84866239902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.020814     Document Type: Article

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