Transfer of 'pure' on-axis spin angular momentum to the absorptive particle using self-imaged bottle beam optical tweezers system

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 5172-5177

  Ahluwalia, B P S ^a   Yuan, X C ^a   Tao, S H ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BIREFRINGENCE; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL DESIGN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ABSORPTIVE PARTICLES; EMBEDDED OPTICAL BOTTLES; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS SYSTEM; TRAPPING;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 9144241253     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.005172     Document Type: Article

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