• DocumentCode
    1194565
  • Title

    Adiabatic submicrometric tapers for optical tweezers

  • Author

    Brambilla, G. ; Xu, F.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton
  • Volume
    43
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    204
  • Lastpage
    206
  • Abstract
    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 mum particles in water
  • Keywords
    nanoparticles; optical fibres; radiation pressure; water; 1 micron; 10 mW; adiabatic submicrometric tapers; microparticles; optical fibres; optical tweezers; water;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20073709
  • Filename
    4117452