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Optimizing your optical tweezers

Nature Methods volume 3, pages 584–585 (2006)Cite this article

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A new measurement theory for dual-trap optical tweezers shows researchers for the first time how to easily optimize their experiments to limit noise from Brownian movement.

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  1. Moffitt, J.R. et al. Differential detection of dual traps improves the spatial resolution of optical tweezers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 9006–9011 (2006).

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Evanko, D. Optimizing your optical tweezers. Nat Methods 3, 584–585 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0806-584b

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