Radiation pressure and the linear momentum of light in dispersive dielectric media

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2245-2250

  Mansuripur, Masud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT VELOCITY; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOCHROMATORS; PERMITTIVITY; PHOTONS; RADIATION EFFECTS;

DISPERSIVE DIELECTRIC MEDIA; ELECTROMAGNETIC MOMENTUM; LINEAR MOMENTUM; RADIATION PRESSURE;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 17444395996     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002245     Document Type: Article

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