Title

On The Concept Of "Tractor Beams"

Abstract

We demonstrate the existence of a class of optical beams where the nonconservative forces can be locally oriented in a direction opposite to the propagation wave vector. Objects placed in the vicinity of these locations will move toward the source of light. The behavior of these negative forces is discussed for the particular case of nondiffracting rotating scale-invariant vector electromagnetic waves. © 2010 Optical Society of America.

Publication Date

11-15-2010

Publication Title

Optics Letters

Volume

35

Issue

22

Number of Pages

3847-3849

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.35.003847

Socpus ID

78549293282 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/78549293282

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