Further Reading¶

This page lists paper describing parts of the toolbox.

Papers describing the toolbox

T. A. Nieminen, V. L. Y. Loke, A. B. Stilgoe, G. Knoener, A. M. Branczyk, N. R. Heckenberg, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, “Optical tweezers computational toolbox”, Journal of Optics A 9, S196-S203 (2007)
T. A. Nieminen, V. L. Y. Loke, G. Knoener, A. M. Branczyk, “Toolbox for calculation of optical forces and torques”, PIERS Online 3(3), 338-342 (2007)

More about computational modelling of optical tweezers:

T. A. Nieminen, N. R. Heckenberg, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, “Computational modelling of optical tweezers”, Proc. SPIE 5514, 514-523 (2004)

More about our beam multipole expansion algorithm:

T. A. Nieminen, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, N. R. Heckenberg, “Multipole expansion of strongly focussed laser beams”, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 79-80, 1005-1017 (2003)

More about our T-matrix algorithm:

T. A. Nieminen, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, N. R. Heckenberg, “Calculation of the T-matrix: general considerations and application of the point-matching method”, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 79-80, 1019-1029 (2003)

The multipole rotation matrix algorithm we used:

C. H. Choi, J. Ivanic, M. S. Gordon, K. Ruedenberg, “Rapid and stable determination of rotation matrices between spherical harmonics by direct recursion” Journal of Chemical Physics 111, 8825-8831 (1999)

The multipole translation algorithm we used:

G. Videen, “Light scattering from a sphere near a plane interface”, pp 81-96 in: F. Moreno and F. Gonzalez (eds), Light Scattering from Microstructures, LNP 534, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000