Rotation of nanowires with radially higher-order Laguerre-Gaussian beams produced by computer-generated holograms

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 6398-6402

  Shi, Li ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Tao, Tao ^a   Wu, Xiaoping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; HOLOGRAMS; LIGHT MODULATORS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAMS; HIGHER INDEX; HIGHER-ORDER; HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL TWEEZERS; LAGUERRE GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN BEAM; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; ZNO NANOWIRES;

COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84866372643     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.006398     Document Type: Article

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