ggf documentation

ggf is a Python library for computing global geometric factors and corresponding stresses acting on dielectric, elastic, spheroidal objects in the optical stretcher. This is the documentation of ggf version 0.4.1.

Contents:

• Installation
• Introduction
  • What is the package “ggf” used for?
  • What is an optical stretcher?
  • What is the global geometric factor?
  • How should I migrate my Matlab pipeline to Python?
    • To reproduce data
    • For a new project
• Concept and theory
  • Summary
  • Experimentally quantifying deformation
  • Optical stress profile acting on a prolate spheroid
    • \(\cos^2\theta\) approximation
    • Semi-analytical perturbation approach (Boyde et al. 2009)
    • Generalized Lorentz-Mie theory (Boyde et al. 2012)
  • Computation of the GGF
    • General approach
    • Special case: \(\cos^2\theta\) approximation
  • Computation of compliance
• Known issues
  • Accuracy of the mode field diameter
  • Method-specific differences
• Code examples
  • Applications
    • Creep compliance analysis
  • Reproduction tests
    • Radial stresses of a prolate spheroid
    • Decomposition of stress in Legendre polynomials
    • Object boundary: stretching and Poisson’s ratio
• Code reference
  • module-level
  • matlab_funcs
  • sci_funcs
  • stress
    • stress.boyde2009
      • stress.boyde2009.core
      • stress.boyde2009.globgeomfact
• Changelog
  • version 0.4.1
  • version 0.4.0
  • version 0.3.4
  • version 0.3.3
  • version 0.3.2
  • version 0.3.1
  • version 0.3.0
  • version 0.2.0
  • version 0.1.0
• Bilbliography

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page