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Optical Trap

Known as: Tweezer, Optical, Laser Tweezers, Trapping, Optical 
A method utilized for the non-mechanical manipulation of nanoparticles. Small transparent objects can be isolated or fixed using focused laser light… 
National Institutes of Health

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2012
2012
Long-reach 10-Gb/s RSOA-based WDM PON employing QPSK signal and coherent receiver.
We demonstrate a long-reach wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical network (WDM PON) operating at the symmetric rate of… 
2010
2010
Real-time experimental demonstration of optical OFDM symbol synchronization in directly modulated DFB laser-based 25km SMF IMDD systems.
A simple optical OFDM (OOFDM) synchronization technique utilizing subtraction and Gaussian windowing at the symbol rate is… 
2009
2009
Real-time demonstration of 128-QAM-encoded optical OFDM transmission with a 5.25bit/s/Hz spectral efficiency in simple IMDD systems utilizing directly modulated DFB lasers.
The feasibility of implementing 128-QAM in off-the-shelf component-based real-time optical OFDM (OOFDM) transceivers… 
2006
2006
Characterization of objective transmittance for optical tweezers.
We have measured the overall transmittance of a laser beam through an oil immersion objective as a function of the transverse… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Cluster formation of nanoparticles in an optical trap studied by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.
We report in situ observation of cluster growth of nanoparticles confined in an optical trapping potential by means of… 
2005
2005
Control of the molecular alignment inside liquid-crystal droplets by use of laser tweezers.
Here, we demonstrate how the light-induced birefringence due to the dipole molecular realignment and anisotropic polarizability… 
2001
2001
Widely and continuously tunable optical parametric oscillator based on a cylindrical periodically poled KTiOPO(4) crystal.
We report on what is to our knowledge the first realization of a quasi-phase-matched optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on… 
1995
1995
Writing diffractive structures by optical trapping
Optical forces, such as radiation pressure and the gradient force, are used to trap microscopic size dielectric particles… 
1995
1995
Angular structure formation in single-pass optical parametric generators pumped by intersecting beams.
Investigation results of angular structure formation in a picosecond traveling-wave optical parametric generator (OPG) based on a… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Lifetime measurement of the 1s5 metastable state of argon and krypton with a magneto-optical trap.
The natural decay rates of the 1s 5 [np 5 (n+1)s, 3 P 2 ] metastable state of argon and krypton are experimentally determined… 
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