Measurement of the total optical angular momentum transfer in optical tweezers
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Measurement of the total optical angular momentum transfer in optical tweezers.
We describe a way to determine the total angular momentum, both spin and orbital, transferred to a particle trapped in optical tweezers. As an example an LG(02) mode of a laser beam with varying degrees of circular polarisation is used to trap and rotate an elongated particle with a well defined geometry. The method successfully estimates the total optical torque applied to the particle. For th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Optics Express
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1094-4087
DOI: 10.1364/oe.14.006963