Realizing optical pulling force using chirality
Optics
2015-06-16 v1
Abstract
We derived an analytical formula for the optical force acting on a small anisotropic chiral particle. The behavior of chiral particles is qualitatively different from achiral particles due to new chirality dependent terms which couple mechanical linear momentum and optical spin angular momentum. Such coupling induced by chirality can serve as a new mechanism to achieve optical pulling force. Our analytical predictions are verified by numerical simulations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1307.3074,
title = {Realizing optical pulling force using chirality},
author = {Kun Ding and Jack Ng and Lei Zhou and C. T. Chan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.3074},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Main text (14 pages, 3 figures), appendix (7 pages)