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Transversal optical trapping: NA=0.50 n m =1.33 n p =1.50.
Agnese Callegari, Mite Mijalkov, A. Burak Gököz, and Giovanni Volpe, “Computational toolbox for optical tweezers in geometrical optics,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32, B11-B19 (2015).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.32.000B11
Brownian motion in an optical trap (low NA).
Brownian motion in an optical trap (medium NA).
Brownian motion in an optical trap (high NA).
Scattering of a ray on a spherical particle (high refractive index).
Scattering of a ray on a spherical particle (low refractive index).
Trapping efficiencies (high refractive index).
Trapping efficiencies (low refractive index).
Alignment for a prolate ellipsoidal particle.
Kramers’ transitions in a double optical trap.
Transversal optical trapping: NA=0.50 nm=1.33 np=1.50.
Transversal optical trapping: NA=1.00 nm=1.33 np=1.50.
Transversal optical trapping: NA=1.30 nm=1.33 np=1.50.
Axial optical trapping: NA=0.50 nm=1.33 np=1.50.
Axial optical trapping: NA=1.00 nm=1.33 np=1.50.
Transversal optical trapping: NA=1.30 nm=1.33 np=1.50.
Transversal optical trapping: NA=0.50 nm=1.33 np=1.00.
Transversal optical trapping: NA=1.00 nm=1.33 np=1.00.
Transversal optical trapping: NA=1.30 nm=1.33 np=1.00.
Axial optical trapping: NA=0.50 nm=1.33 np=1.00.
Axial optical trapping: NA=1.00 nm=1.33 np=1.00.
Axial optical trapping: NA=1.30 nm=1.33 np=1.00.
Axial optical trapping: NA=0.50 nm=1.60 np=1.00.
Transversal optical trapping: NA=1.00 nm=1.60 np=1.00.
Transversal optical trapping: NA=1.30 nm=1.60 np=1.00.
Transversal optical trapping: NA=0.50 nm=1.60 np=1.00.
Axial optical trapping: NA=1.00 nm=1.60 np=1.00.
Axial optical trapping – NA=1.30 nm=1.60 np=1.00.