Optical forces and optical torques on various materials arising from optical lattices in the Lorentz-Mie regime

By combining the Maxwell stress tensor with the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, we calculate the optical force and optical torque on particles from optical lattices. We compare our method to the two-component method and the electrostatic approximation (ESA). We also discuss how particle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jia, Lin, Thomas, Edwin L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society (APS) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69144
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5911-6524