Radiation pressure and the distribution of electromagnetic force in dielectric media

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2321-2336

  Zakharian, Armis R ^a   Mansuripur, Masud ^a   Moloney, Jerome V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PERMITTIVITY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RADIATION EFFECTS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RADIATION PRESSURES; TRAPPING;

MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS;

EID: 21244502567     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002321     Document Type: Article

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