Adiabatic submicrometric tapers for optical tweezers

被引:25
作者
Brambilla, G. [1 ]
Xu, F. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Southampton, Optoelect Res Ctr, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
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10.1049/el:20073709
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Adiabatic tips have been manufactured from optical fibres and used as efficient optical tweezers. Trapping powers in the order of 10 mW have been used for 1 mu m particles in water.
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