optical potential

  • 1Optical tweezers — (originally called single beam gradient force trap ) are scientific instruments that use a highly focused laser beam to provide an attractive or repulsive force (typically on the order of piconewtons), depending on the refractive index mismatch… …

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  • 2Optical storage — is a term from engineering referring to the storage of data on an optically readable medium. Data is recorded by making marks in a pattern that can be read back with the aid of light, usually a beam of laser light precisely focused on a spinning… …

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  • 3Optical axis grating — Optical axis gratings (OAGs) are gratings of optical axis of a birefringent material. In OAGs, the birefringence of the material is constant, while the direction of optical axis is periodically modulated in a fixed direction. In this way they are …

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  • 4Optical lift — is an optical analogue of aerodynamic lift, in which a cambered refractive object with differently shaped top and bottom surfaces experiences a stable transverse lift force when placed in a uniform stream of light.[1] Contents 1 Discovery 2… …

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  • 5Optical axis gratings — (OAGs) are gratings of optical axis of a birefringent material. In OAGs, the birefringence of the material is constant, while the direction of optical axis is periodically modulated in a fixed direction. In this way they are different from the… …

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  • 6Optical Express — Group Type Private Industry Healthcare Founded 1991 Founder(s) David Moulsdale Headqu …

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  • 7Optical disc — Optical media redirects here. For transmission media for light, see Medium (optics). The optical lens of a compact disc drive. In computing and optical disc recording technologies, an optical disc is a flat, usually circular disc which encodes… …

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  • 8Optical mapping — Optical mapping[1] is a technique for constructing ordered, genome wide, high resolution restriction maps from single, stained molecules of DNA, called optical maps . By mapping the location of restriction enzyme sites along the unknown DNA of an …

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  • 9Optical heterodyne detection — is an important special case of heterodyne detection. In heterodyne detection, a signal of interest at some frequency is non linearly mixed with a reference local oscillator (LO) that is set at a close by frequency. The desired outcome is the… …

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  • 10Optical performance monitoring — (OPM) is used for managing high capacity dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical transmission and switching systems in Next Generation Networks (NGN). OPM involves assessing the quality of data channel by measuring its optical… …

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