Evaluation of forces levitating a particle in optical vortex beam

Date

2011

Authors

Eckerskorn, Niko
Shvedov, Vladlen
Rode, Andrei V
Krolikowski, Wieslaw

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European Physical Society

Abstract

We study, both theoretically and in experiments, the dependence of optical forces acting on a spherical particle guided in air with an optical vortex beam, on the light polarization state, and discuss potential applications.

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Keywords: Optical force; Optical vortex beam; Potential applications; Spherical particle; Electron optics; Optics; Quantum electronics; Vortex flow

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European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Europe) 2011

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Conference paper

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