Optical Forces Induced At The Metal Surface

Creator

M. I. Petrov, Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics University ITMO
A. A. Bogdanov, Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics University ITMO
S. V. Sukhov, University of Central Florida
A. Dogariu, University of Central Florida
A. S. Shalin, Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics University ITMO

Keywords

Couplings; Force; Optical diffraction; Optical surface waves; Plasmons; Surface waves; Ultrafast optics

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the optical forces acting on a small nanoparticle in the vicinity of a plane metallic surface. We show that illuminating the nanoparticle by a plane wave leads to the excitation of a surface plasmon polariton wave at the metallic interface, which governs the opto-mechanical response of nanoparticle. The presented calculations show that for a nanoparticle in the Rayleigh approximation one can achieve lateral force acting in the direction opposite to incident field.

Publication Date

12-11-2015

Publication Title

Proceedings of the International Conference Days on Diffraction 2015, DD 2015

Number of Pages

250-254

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/DD.2015.7354869

Copyright Status

Unknown

Socpus ID

84961844027 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84961844027

STARS Citation

Petrov, M. I.; Bogdanov, A. A.; Sukhov, S. V.; Dogariu, A.; and Shalin, A. S., "Optical Forces Induced At The Metal Surface" (2015). Scopus Export 2015-2019. 1906.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2015/1906