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Extended and knotted optical traps in three dimensions
Elisabeth R Shanblatt1, David G Grier
1Department of Physics, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA.
Optics Express
|April 1, 2011
Abstract:
We describe a method for projecting holographic optical traps that are extended along arbitrary curves in three dimensions, and whose amplitude and phase profiles are specified independently. This approach can be used to create bright optical traps with knotted optical force fields.
