Optical Torque Controlled by Elliptical Polarization

Overview

Journal Opt Lett

Specialty Ophthalmology

Date 2007 Dec 18

PMID 18084392

Citations 10

Authors

M E Friese

T A Nieminen

N R Heckenberg

H Rubinsztein-Dunlop

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Abstract

We show theoretically and demonstrate experimentally that highly absorbing particles can be trapped and manipulated in a single highly focused Gaussian beam. Our studies of the effects of polarized light on such particles show that they can be set into rotation by elliptically polarized light and that both the sense and the speed of their rotation can be smoothly controlled.

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