Title
Reverse Optical Forces In Negative Index Dielectric Waveguide Arrays
Abstract
Nonconservative optical forces acting on dipolar particles are considered in longitudinally invariant optical fields.We demonstrate that the orientation of these forces is strictly dictated by the propagation vector associated with such field configurations. As a direct consequence of this, it is impossible to achieve a reversal of optical forces in homogeneous media. We show instead that translation invariant optical tractor fields can in fact be generated in the negative index environment produced in a special class of fully dielectric waveguide arrays. © 2011 Optical Society of America.
Publication Date
8-15-2011
Publication Title
Optics Letters
Volume
36
Issue
16
Number of Pages
3103-3105
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.003103
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
80051721241 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/80051721241
STARS Citation
Salandrino, Alessandro and Christodoulides, Demetrios N., "Reverse Optical Forces In Negative Index Dielectric Waveguide Arrays" (2011). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 2689.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/2689