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### Measuring lateral efficiency of optical traps: The effect of tube length

Abstract:

An optical tweezer setup is made based on a custom-designed inverted microscope, which can work both in finite and infinite tube length microscopy modes. It is shown that the spherical aberration due to the mismatch in the refractive indices of the specimen (water) and the immersion oil as well as the wavelength can be partially compensated by introducing another source for the spherical aberration provided it has the opposite sign. Changing the tube length is shown to be a good candidate for...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Theoretical Physics
Role:
Author
Journal:
OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS
Volume:
259
Issue:
1
Pages:
204-211
Publication date:
2006-03-01
DOI:
ISSN:
0030-4018
Source identifiers:
157485
Language:
English
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Deposit date:
2012-12-19