Plasmonic particles set into fast orbital motion by an optical vortex beam

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 4349-4356

  Lehmuskero, Anni ^a   Li, Yanming ^b   Johansson, Peter ^a,c   Káll, Mikael ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84894822487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.004349     Document Type: Article

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