Title

Optical "Tractor Beams" With Nonconservative Forces

Abstract

We demonstrate that, for an entire class of optical beams, nonconservative forces can point in a direction opposite to propagation wavevector. The properties of these forces are examined in the Rayleigh and geometrical optics limits. © 2010 Optical Society of America.

Publication Date

12-1-2011

Publication Title

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84894072971 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84894072971

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